[muglo] Re: useless clutter your computer saves
- From: Douglas Feick <dejl6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Freelist <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 21:47:04 -0400
You include politics? Caution doesn’t seem to be in everyone’s vocab on the
hill.
On Jul 24, 2014, at 3:18 PM, Doug Bale <dougbale51@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You’re right to be cautious. It ought to be a universal rule, for power
> tools, politics or anything else: If you don’t know what you’re doing, don’t
> do it.
>
>
> On Jul 24, 2014, at 2:46 PM, Don Green Dragon <fergdc@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello Doug,
>>
>> On 17Jul2014, at 6:03 PM, Doug Bale <dougbale@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On occasion I’ve gone into my iMac’s top library file and found up to a
>>> couple of gigabytes of Mail messages duplicated there for
>>> Apple-only-knows-why. This time, there was very little, but I stumbled on
>>> another memory-hogging cache full of advertising images I’ve never looked
>>> at except to note their and trash them. They’re all from online catalogue
>>> sites where I’ve gone hunting for particular items and had to wade through
>>> pages of these other items to get there.
>>>
>>> You might want to check on how much space your browser’s wasting with this
>>> stuff: To get to the main library, if you haven’t had occasion to do that
>>> before, press Go from the Finder’s main menu, hold onto the drop-down menu
>>> that appears, and press Option to make the normally-hidden Library
>>> destination appear in the list. Open that and all kinds of neat things show
>>> up. The cache I cleared out today was at
>>> Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.mail/fsCachedData
>>>
>>
>> Interesting! But …
>>
>> I went to the directory that you list above and looked. Clearly Junk so I
>> deleted it. However, on looking around in nearby directories I discovered
>> some `caches’ that are relevant and that I know I don’t want to delete. Most
>> of what showed up was too mysterious for me to understand, hence I did not
>> touch what remained a mystery.
>>
>> Thanks for the info.
>>
>> don green dragon
>> fergdc@xxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
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