my computer is running a bit slow. So i looked up some tips to seed up my mac. I read i had to check my system caches and if the folder was over 3GB, I had to delete it.So I went and got my system caches folder, i saw the file size was over 102GB!if there's something wrong with my computer and whether it's safe for me to delete my system cache.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
I've noticed my hard drive space slowly whittling away for no apparent reason. Having done a bit of research on the net, the topic of cache files often come up, allegedly deleting htem clears up a lot of space and allows your mac to run much faster. Is it safe to do this? I have onyx for mac, which options under cleaning do people usually check when using it? I am running snow leopard 10.6.2
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3. Capture Scratch
4. Render Files
5. Thumbnail Cache Files
6. Waveform Cache Files
Is it safe to delete these six folders? I wouldn't otherwise care, but collectively they are taking up 25 GB on my HD. I'm not planning to delete the actual FCP project files and their attached media, but rather the above six folders which appear to be cache? Do I run any risk of losing my entire presentation if I delete these six folders, or is it simply a matter of just re rendering my project if I delete them?
My file cache is using over a GB of memory. How do i set the system to free up memory that is being held but not used?
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MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
Is it safe to delete downloads from Finder after installing the app or item ....
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View 1 Replies View RelatedMy new (January 2014) iMac was purchased with 16GB of RAM. My file cache keeps getting filled up. How to keep it cleared so it is not eating up my RAM?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
I have a mac mini with 8 gbytes of RAM. When my wife and I are both logged in (but only one actively, of course),
the memory usage goes up to maximum (7.94gbytes). Of this, only 2.8gbytes are app memory, with 4 gbytes of file cache.
This seems ridiculously high. Is there a way for me to instruct the mac os to use less file cache?
In activity monitor it shows that I have 16GB of physical memory, 12.77 GB used memory, 16GB virtual memory.
It also shows App memory 1.9GB, FILE CACHE 9.56GB and wired memory 1.31GB.
My question is in regards to file cache at 9.56GB. What is file cache and why is it so high? Does this mean I should install more memory? I looked file cache up and I think it's memory that has been used but is not being used currently, it's waiting to be used again. Not sure if that's right though, or what it really means.
Late 2013 27" iMac, 3.4 GHz i5
16GB ram
OSX 10.9.4
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iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Out of the blue my Mac suddenly is devoting a huge amount of ram to file cache. I have 32 Gigs of Ram and curretly 27 gigs of that is devoted to file cache. I am only running mail, iTunes and Chrome and I have 7 mg of ram left. What could be causing this and is there a fix?
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), 32 GB RAM
If I type this in the terminal...dscacheutil -flishcache;killall -HUP mDNSResponder
it ask for admin password but i cannot type that ...
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
I need to populate the bays of my new MacPro 2.66 with 5GB RAM. The stock HD turns out to be a Seagate 250GB HD ST3250820A. I've found them online and wonder if I just should RAID three or four of them as opposed to one Seagate 500GBs or 750 with 32GB cache? These would all be a Raid run by Apple software not a RAID card.
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
I have done some searching, but haven't really gotten a straight answer. In my Private Folder is a Folder entitled "var." It is 4.6GB in size and I was wondering if it is safe to delete it.
Contents of Folder var:
- vm (4.06 GB)
- db (396 MB)
- folders (91.9 MB)
- tmp (40 MB)
- log (7.54 MB)
- run (832 KB)
- samba (72 KB)
- spool (32 KB)
- yp (16 KB)
- named (12 KB)
- amavis (8 KB)
- msgs (4 KB)
- agentx (0 bytes)
- root (0 bytes)
- mail (0 bytes)
- rwho (0 bytes)
- empty (0 bytes)
- backups (0 bytes)
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After getting my hard drive corrupted by dual boot of Linux, and having to delete everything, I decided to not use it again. With the fresh install of OSX, I inspected the partitions in Terminal and deleted most of them. However, there is a 200mb EFI partition still there. Is it safe to delete it, or will deleting it mess up my system again?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I downloaded it to my Mac (years ago!).. The Cover Flow option refuses to work with me, as rather than showing cover art for each album, it shows it for each song. This causes several duplicates showing up for each album, while browsing on Cover Flow only!I've gone through my Music - iTunes folder multiple times, cleaning through duplicates items and so on. I don't know if iTunes Libraries stored on my Mac is causing this (iTunes Database File).
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
