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What I Have Tried:
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- Rebooting in SU mode following code off Apple Support website- Failed!
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- Went into the Genius Bar to talk to a Genius. He tried to start up remotely with an External HD- Failed!
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Jun 3, 2010I use my Time Capsule to back up my laptop (Time Machine) and also as a networked hard drive. In the root directory of Time Capsule a folder called 'Data' is created to store the Time Machine backup. I can't seem to create folders next to the Data folder? I can't only create new folders within the Data folder. Is this normal?
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Intel Mac :: Deleted Some Files In A Folder Named "private"?
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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Is It Ok To Delete The Contents Of /private/var/folders/*
Feb 23, 2012I'm doing some major maintenance of my Macbook at the moment, and so far that has included running Onyx and Cocktail, and I'm not in the process of defragmenting files and free space with TechTool.In the process of defragmenting files, a few files called "daily.out" cropped up as fragmented and large. They were contained inside a folder called /private/var/folders.Â
On inspecting this folder, it would seem that all of its contents are subfolders with "cache" or "tmp" in them. I assume these are all temporary files and caches, using my incredible genius discerning skills. Â
Question is, can I safely just trash the entire contents of this /folders/ directory? Some of these caches and logs have grown to gigantic sized, the entire folder is about 200MB at this stage, and they remain even though I used Onyx and Cocktail to clear out caches.
exactly what is this directory used for and which caches are they? They're obviously not the same caches as you find in /Library/Caches or ~/Library/Caches/, so what's the difference? Can they safely be gotten rid of? When running cocktail, one of the options is to ignore the caches of audio units and such, I work often with DAWs so I was just wondering, what good does a "cache" do for these plugins, and why wouldn't you want to clear them from time to time?Â
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OS X :: Leopard System Files Visible In Root Drive
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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Hidden Private File And Contents - Hack Or Remote User?
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would macscan be able to find this hidden priviate file and find if there was something malicious?
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Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
