Hello Apple Communities,
I am cleaning my mac hard drive and found the file "com.apple.iWork.Numbers". Size 33.07 GB.
File path: Macintosh HD/Users/Jon/Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.Numbers
There is a folder "Autosave Information" inside the file's package contents that 33 GB. I feel I can potentially save some space here. Any way to get rid of these? Thank you.
Jon
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15
That folder on mine is small but it is worrisome for a different reason. In mine are autosaves of a file that I keep in a password protected disk image using a different password than my computer log-in. I am able to open them and look at their contents in the "autosave" folder. This is a security hole if anyone was savvy enough to find them. However, I noticed all of the files were a year old or two old. I deleted them.
That folder on mine is small but it is worrisome for a different reason. In mine are autosaves of a file that I keep in a password protected disk image using a different password than my computer log-in. I am able to open them and look at their contents in the "autosave" folder. This is a security hole if anyone was savvy enough to find them. However, I noticed all of the files were a year old or two old. I deleted them.
Don't know what is safe to do and what is not on your machine but I can say that com.apple.iWork.Numbers is only 25.7 MB (not GB) on my machine. So if you really have 33 GB it seems likely that is not "normal" and you will be able to save space.
SG
Thank you for the replies. It gave me the courage to delete the 33 GB of autosaves.
After about 20 minutes the "com.apple.iWork.Numbers" reduced in size from 33 GB to 6 MB.
I expected deleting the autosaves would mean I couldn't view past Versions of Numbers files anymore, but I still can for some reason. My backup drive is disconnected, so it's not pulling them from Time Machine either.
Anyway, thanks for the help.
Yikes!
And just deleting has had no ill effects? (I don't see any autosaves on my machine).
SG
File on my machine is likewise small (under 22MB). When I try to open it I get the message "Numbers can't open the file".
quinn
I didn't even bother to see. The saved files were old. The actual file is elsewhere. I have no worries.
Autosaves in "com.apple.iWork.Numbers"
