Can I Delete Library Containers Mac

Open Finder and click on Downloads from the left sidebar. Click on the word ‘ Size’ to arrange the items by size. This will help you locate the large files quickly. To delete, right-click on the file and choose Move to Trash. You may also select the files (s) and press Command + Delete.

And Apple software updates can reinstall ones you've deleted so it's not necessarily a one-time removal routine. I don't see any reason to risk removing those files unless reclaiming disk space is a necessity and there are no safer alternatives. You can easily delete all the directories with age a week and higher. /Library/Developer/Xcode/Archives same story here, but you need to be more careful with removing old archive files (especially if your projects are not under version control).

What are log files, and what do they do?

1. Apr 18, 2019 The contents of which seem to be random images from my Photos Library. (I have about 60gb worth and use iCloud Storage to sync all items). I'm not sure where these are from, what this cache is for, but I'd like to reclaim the space and delete them. Im sure that it's not going to delete the originals out of my Photo Library, but can't be sure.
2. Containers is the macOS sandboxing, mainly used by apps from the Mac App Store but others can use it too. Each container holds the settings and data for an app, and deleting the container loses everything. If a particular container is huge, then you've found an app with tons of data in it. You should then research if you can clear some of it.

Log files are a journal of system parameters and entries describing everything that takes place on your Mac. Any operation that is being performed is noted down in the form of logs, much like a “black box” on an airplane.

For the most part, log files contain crash reports and app errors. To us, regular users, this information bears no sense because it’s unreadable. But when you need to diagnose a problem, log files are an indispensable invention.

How to delete user log files?

Why would anyone want to delete user logs on Mac? First, deleting outdated logs may speed up some of your apps. Second, however small they are, logs still take space on your disk. And lastly, outdated logs could potentially cause software conflicts.

User logs are a part of your user profile.
They are stored at: ~/Library/Logs

You should know that deleting user logs is not an everyday operation. It may backfire if you don’t know what you’re deleting. But since you asked, here is how it’s done.

We've got two ways to do it: the manual way and the CleanMyMac X way.

How to clear log files on a Mac manually

1. Open Finder and select 'Go to Folder' in the Go menu.
2. Type in ~/Library/Logs and hit Enter to proceed to this folder (pay attention to the use of “~” — this will ensure that you’re cleaning user log files, not the system log files).
3. Optional step: You can highlight & copy everything to a different folder in case anything goes wrong.
4. Select all files and move them to the Trash.
5. Restart your Mac.
   Note: We recommend that you remove the insides of these folders, but not the folders themselves. Also, note that some system applications, like Mail, have their own logs stored elsewhere.

Make sure that once you have finished clearing out these logs for additional hard drive space, you empty your Trash. To do this, Control-click on the Trash icon in the dock and select “Empty Trash.” Restart your Mac afterward so your Mac can begin to create new log files.

Also, some log files can be found in the /var/log folder, but not all the items contained therein are safe to remove. That’s why it is safer to remove log files using a Mac cleaning utility like CleanMyMac X.

How to clear log files with CleanMyMac X

Rather than searching all over your Mac for log files yourself, you can clean up logs with CleanMyMac X in just 4 steps. And that’s not all it does!

Here's how to delete log files on a Mac with CleanMyMac X:

1. Download CleanMyMac X (free version) and launch it.
2. Choose System Junk in the left menu.
3. Click Scan at the bottom of CleanMyMac X.
4. Hit Clean.

Done! If you’d like to remove only log files and nothing else, click Review Details before clicking Clean. Deselect everything except for System Log Files and User Log Files, and then click Clean.

Is it safe to delete log files?

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Many experienced users prefer to clean their user logs as part of their Mac cleaning routine. Though it doesn’t directly translate into speed, there is some benefit in keeping your disk clean. Some apps have notoriously large log files, especially media apps. For example, I’ve found a single log file by Elmedia player that weighted 325 MB in writing this article.

You shouldn’t delete the entire Logs folder, only delete what’s contained inside as a word of caution. As we have said, log files serve diagnostic purposes. If your Mac is doing well, there’s nothing particularly harmful in deleting logs.

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Cleaning up log files with CleanMyMac X is as easy as can be. And, as we said before, it can do so much more, too! With CleanMyMac X, you can clean up outdated apps, language packs, universal binaries, and gigabytes of useless junk you didn’t even know you had. Download CleanMyMac X now and feel what it’s like to have a faster, cleaner Mac.

Click here to return to the 'Delete caches and save disk space' hint

I've been a fan of the free JDiskReport for finding files and folders sitting there taking up space.

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For an Intel equivalent of the disk space usage, try Disk Inventory, also free.
Also, to skip the typing everytime & for a graphical interface, these options are available in both maintenance tools of Onyx and iTweax.
The heavier-duty Onyx actually doesn't indicate the amount used by the Cache, which the light-weight iTweax does.

I recently recovered 5 gigs of hard drive space using Tiger Cache Cleaner. My iBook also starts up and runs noticeably faster now.

$ du -k ~/Library/Caches/ | sort -n
Great for spotting where that space is going
(you may need to sudo it)
$ sudo -k ~/Library/Caches/ | sort -n > du_cache.txt
to get a text file

I tried this:
Doesn't work...

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Father of Jeremy Logan

I meant to add, that I want to add something like this to my ~/.bashrc:

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Father of Jeremy Logan

just use a . (ie. period) in place of pwd... and no quotes. FYI: in unix the . stands for the current directory and a .. stands for the parent directory.

It's easier than that!
du -k | sort -n
du defaults to the present directory

Delete Library Containers Mac

AppleJack, among other things, will clean both system and user caches, as well as feed the pets and repair your permissions. Welll, maybe not the pets thing, but it is a lovely program.

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I'm not sure if this hint has been posted before but if you get info on each application file there are installed language options. I went through all of my apps and deleted all of them except english. Most times this will halve the size of the app. Apple is notorious for installing 12 different languages for each app. I believe there is an apple script that does this automatically too.

Just be careful about deleting some application localizations. Some applications may have dependencies to those localizations. Some time ago, I remember a problem when someone tried to delete localizations, and they ended up having to reinstall that application.

Yep, certain apps can mysteriously misbehave after you've deleted their language localization files. And Apple software updates can reinstall ones you've deleted so it's not necessarily a one-time removal routine.
I don't see any reason to risk removing those files unless reclaiming disk space is a necessity and there are no safer alternatives.

I can recommend Monolingual (monolingual.sourceforge.net), a neat little software that does just that - removes language resources you don't want/need. I've been using it for a couple of years now without problems (making sure never to remove any of the English varieties (my system language).
Anders

Just for reference, I will reiterate what has already been said about the long-term importance (or lack there of) of files in the ~/Library/Caches directory.
Recently I discovered a bug in an application (the producer of said application was 'some kind of fruit company' who shall remain nameless), and the top level tech that I was working with confirmed that its no big deal to delete the contents of the ~/Library/Caches directory.
I'm not advocating that you empty the directory and then lock the folder so that it can never be populated, nor am I advocating that you empty the directory at all. I'm simply stating that you can empty the directory and its not a big deal.
If your Caches folder is out of control, then you should think about some sort of cleaning.
For comparison purposes, here are the current sizes for my (Mac OS X created) Caches folders:
/Library/Caches
24.7 MB
/System/Library/Caches
11.6 MB
/private/var/root/Library/Caches
16 KB
~/Library/Caches
80.2 MB
The oldest directory within the ~/Library/Caches directory was modified Apr 4 2006.

Can I Delete Container Files On Mac

I'd be cautious deleting ~/Library/Caches/Metadata because it contains Spotlight proxy files used by iCal, Safari, and other apps. Something will eventually trigger those files to be regenerated but before that happens Spotlight searching may be temporarily crippled. I discovered that awhile ago with Safari bookmarks and eventually deleted and restored the Bookmarks.plist file to force proxy files to be rebuilt after other methods had failed to do it.

First, a true confession: Until very recently (i.e. today) I didn't know about the need to periodically delete the cache and as a result, mine was gigantic.
I deleted the cache by dragging it into the trash and then emptying the trash. Then I told the computer to restart. I understand it takes awhile to rebuild the cache, but I'm not sure what 'awhile' means. It's been almost 2 hours now and I'm wondering if that's normal for the (gulp) years worth of stuff that was stored in my cache. How many hours should I let this continue before taking some other action?
Thanks for your help.