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I have had the same home folder since, I think, Leopard and have noticed that it is really big, 189,8 GB.
Since I have my photos, movies and music on other drives, this made me curious.
I found that the size is due to the Library folder, which is 188,5GB.
The Caches folder is 119GB and Application Support is 39GB.
Do these seem excessive?
If so, what can I do to regain space?
Thank you very much in advance
Philip
Mac Pro, OS X 10.11
I'll reply to myself again. I followed Linc Davis's suggestion below which immediately deleted the stuff contained within com.apple.bird.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6845669?answerId=27719960022#27719960022
I'll reply to myself again. I followed Linc Davis's suggestion below which immediately deleted the stuff contained within com.apple.bird.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6845669?answerId=27719960022#27719960022
For some reason I wasn't able to edit the original post.
Looking closer at Caches, I see that Adobe takes up 40GB which I would expect because I have thousands of images in my Bridge database.
Then there is a folder called com.Apple.bird which is 86GB. I understand it is related to iCloud and I have seen other people say that their com.apple.bird folders were very large due to WhatsApp backups.
If I search Caches for "whatsapp" only one folder is found and it's just 5MB.
The biggest part of com.apple.bird is made up of 189 files ranging in size from 240-660 MB and one that is 1,9GB. They are listed as "TextEdit Documents" and have alphanumerical codes as filenames. In total they are 76GB.
Interestingly, these large files have modification dates that are either 4 or 7 days apart.
Any idea what these big files might be and if they can be deleted?
Very large library in Home folder
