![]() So what’s the trick to delete these files and have Mac OS clean house on it’s own? How to Safely Clear Temporary Items & /private/var/folders/ in Mac OS X Yes, you can get those temporary /private and /tmp folders to clear their contents by allowing OS X to run through it’s own typical maintenance routine.ĭo not manually delete items in /private/var/ or /var/folders, you could break something or cause a problem with Mac OS X. OK so what if you have 40GB of temporary garbage stored in these folders, you want to remove that data obviously, how should you get Mac OS X to ditch the temporary files it is holding onto? Can you remove the temporary data another way? YES, you can clear out those temporary folders by letting Mac OS X perform regular functionality ![]() Doing so may damage your Mac OS installation and may prevent OS X from booting or behaving as expected. No, do not go into those folders and delete files even if they are large, you should should never manually intervene in these directories. There are rare exceptions to this with very specific circumstances for advanced users who backup, but for 99% of the cases, no user involvement should happen in these system level temporary directories. The /tmp, /private, /var, /var/folder directories should never be manually adjusted, modified, or otherwise changed by the user in anyway. NO, you should never manually delete items in the system temporary folders This may sound confusing but it’s really not, and getting Mac OS X to clean house and ditch those potentially enormous files is really simple. What should you do? Should you delete the files yourself? Is it possible to clear them out? The answer to this is both NO and YES, NO you should never clear those temporary cache items yourself, but YES you can have Mac OS clear out the temporary files itself. You want those files removed so you can regain that disk space, obviously. How to Remove Temporary Items from Mac System Folders For example on this particular Mac which is rarely rebooted, OmniDiskSweeper has discovered some large files hanging around buried deep in one of these temporary system folders of /private/var/folders/ further buried in /g7/7p9s/T/TemporaryItems/, with those many temporary items eating up a grand total of 44GB of disk space, hardly a soft footprint:
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