Finally I went back and reinstalled Flash (following these instructions for a clean install, though it turned out I didn't need to delete anything because it was already gone). Cleaner and used it to identify and clear unnecessary files - it identified ~65GB of unnecessary files, which was suspiciously close to the ~65GB of, and sure enough, when it was done, I checked back and those files were gone. Response by poster: Sorry, I meant to post this comment last night, but my internet caught a case of the vapors and went down.Īnyway, I wanted to share, with a tip of the hat to pharm, signal, and andrewcooke, I've managed to address the problem, at least for the moment. If this isn't the problem, does anyone have an idea what is? And how I could not only solve it, but prevent it from happening in the future? posted by leticia to Computers & Internet (26 answers total) 14 users marked this as a favorite I'm not techie enough to fool around with that without guidance, but could this be the problem? if so, can I safely delete those files? I wanted to try and look into this cache question, and my online research led me to discover that there is a folder called fsCachedData connected to Firefox that is about 65GB in size. Could some of this data be old video cache or temporary files that is piling up? The only other thing I could think of is that we use this laptop for watching programs from our DVR via Xfinity TV (and Firefox). You can see we deleted a ton of stuff, and still the storage grows. Here's an image of my storage info window from around Oct 30, and here's one from today, Nov 11. I spent some time on an Apple help chat today, which was less than helpful - taking me through the standard script of steps I'd already tried, then jumping to, "delete everything and reinstall". disabled local backups in Time MachineĪfter much research and troubleshooting, I have gotten nowhere. deleted all cache and offline website data from Firefox searched for files larger than 1GB and moved to external drive Where is that all that data coming from?īefore anyone asks if I've tried the obvious stuff, here's what I've done so far: 2 weeks ago it was in the 130GB range, and today it's up to 150GB. At the same time, the amount of space used up by "System" files has been steadily climbing up. I've stripped down the user-saved files as much as possible, but whatever new space I make, it just gets filled up. What the heck is going on? Why does this storage keep getting used up? I get that the storage amount is never totally stable and some variations as applications write data should be expected, but going from 37GB to 0 without deliberately adding anything is crazy. Since then (a period of maximum 8 weeks) we have not downloaded anything bigger than your standard Word doc or PDF, but the available storage is now often in the neighborhood of 1-3GB, and sometimes even going down into the 200-300MB range So I deleted all of that, and afterward the computer had 37GB of free space on it. For example, in the process, I found about 20GB in orphaned podcast files that were copied over from older iterations of itunes but never reconnected to itunes. When we first started getting the "your start up drive is almost full" message, I didn't think anything of it, except that we needed to jettison some superfluous files.
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