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What's exactly is in my Library Folder?
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I don't see any GB files there
for clarification I'm talking about the library folder that's right off my home directory.
for clarification I'm talking about the library folder that's right off my home directory.
I'm fairly sure that's where your prefernces, install files, histories, and settings are saved. But i know for sure its a bad odea to delete it.
Don't just delete it!
Take a look inside that directory to find out what makes it so big.
Stuff like your preferences, Mail data, Address Book database etc. are all found in your (so inside your home folder/) Library.
Sometimes apps store huge files (like older Parallels Windows HD-images) in there, so be careful what you delete.
Just browse inside this directory (especially the Application Support/ dir.) and try to figure out what files belong to which apps.
Take a look inside that directory to find out what makes it so big.
Stuff like your preferences, Mail data, Address Book database etc. are all found in your (so inside your home folder/) Library.
Sometimes apps store huge files (like older Parallels Windows HD-images) in there, so be careful what you delete.
Just browse inside this directory (especially the Application Support/ dir.) and try to figure out what files belong to which apps.
28.9 is far to big for either library. Not considering the home folder one. My best guess would be a bloating log file. So go into that library folder and select the logs folder then right click get info(cmd-i)
The other thing might be your mail. So do the command i on the mail folder as well.
And for those of you who said it doesn't contain a whole lot....Yes it will recreate itself if you can find a way to delete it. But you will be mail less and your user will look like a new system....
The other thing might be your mail. So do the command i on the mail folder as well.
And for those of you who said it doesn't contain a whole lot....Yes it will recreate itself if you can find a way to delete it. But you will be mail less and your user will look like a new system....
As stated by others, the Library contains settings, data and stuff. Just use du or WhatSize to see what's taking all that space.
If you run Parallels Desktop, the virtual machines are probably stored in your library, consuming lots of space. Mail can add up to several gigabytes too, sneaky little files those mails.
This is really weird... whatsize is telling me that my library is 619 MB... but if I get info on the folder I get 28.92 gigs.
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Furthermore, whatsize tells me that I have 41.6 Gb used on my HD, however, iStat is telling me 87.4 Gb used.... gahhhh!!! Very frustrating.
http://www.evanoliver.com/trevor/pic.png
Furthermore, whatsize tells me that I have 41.6 Gb used on my HD, however, iStat is telling me 87.4 Gb used.... gahhhh!!! Very frustrating.
That must be your user Library folder: /Users/your username/Library/
You want: /Library/
Edit: Wow. The new "Alex" voice in Leopard takes up 669 MBs!
How big is Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Webpage Previews? That is where Safari 4's Top Sites stored two image files for every web page you visit. I'm not sure about this, but I don't think it's "self-cleaning". What goes in Previews, stays in Previews.
I don't think it was fixed. I read something about it in a recent MacWorld issue. When I looked at it, I had over 500MB in there!