Comments on: Delete User Caches in Mac OS X

By: 5 Quick Tips to Free Up Disk Space in Mac OS X

5 Quick Tips to Free Up Disk Space in Mac OS X — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:49:57 +0000

[...] continue to grow, and generally they aren’t cleared out until the app is quit. You can also delete the cache files manually, but it’s much easier to just relaunch your apps and have the OS clear it for you. It’s [...]

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:19:00 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Managed to reclaim 50Gb of out dated Virtual Box VM’s. Useful software.

By: adam

adam — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:55:33 +0000

OnyX don’t do anything in One Click, even is a good app, You must know what you do, and many things checks before run…

By: qka

qka — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:26:43 +0000

Be aware that .plist files are sometimes also stored in ~/Library/Caches/ (Usually they are in ~/Library/Preferences/)

Deleting .plist files will cause you to lose custom setting you established in an Application’s Preferences.

On the other hand, deleting the .Plist file(s) for an app is something to try if an app is acting weird.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:52:10 +0000

ONYX, MainMenu do the job in 1 clic also….why brainstorming when you can do an 1 clic ???

By: Randy Marsh

Randy Marsh — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:48:18 +0000

Spotify is eating up 4GB of my disk space, Steam and Blizzard takes up plenty too!

Based on that, I would bet some of the cached contents are partially completed downloads and updates.

By: vdiv

vdiv — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:11:34 +0000

If you are not seeing the size of the folders from the Finder “View” menu select “Show View Options” (or just press Command-J) and check the box for “Calculate all sizes”.

You can also get CCleaner (http://piriform.com/mac) to do the application flie cleaning and then some for you.