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May 27, 2015 6:03 PM in response to jodytateby aerodyno,Yes, it looks like whatsapp backup is saving a new, complete file to this directory -- or it's saved on iCloud and it's copied down to your Mac, every day. I switched it to weekly now. That's got to be a bug. My daily file is currently around 300MB, so and each day it gets a little larger. So I have 20GB of com.apple.bird.. Will try deleting...
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May 28, 2015 3:19 AM in response to aerodynoby m4tti,I can confirm the answer of aerodyno.
I my case the folder is about ~33GB, and all the big files a COMPLETE daily backups of the Whatsapp App. Turning these backups off or changing them to weekly should improve the behavior of that folder, but to completely fix it I think we depend on Whatsapp to fix that and begin to make delta update of the backups...
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Jun 29, 2015 2:04 PM in response to jodytateby EdwardlyMoss,I can confirm none of this. I've heard of the app, sure. but why is this folder constantly reappearing with the app in question..not existent?
"bird"...
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Nov 22, 2015 3:04 PM in response to EdwardlyMossby liroyvh,Do any of you guys by any chance make use of WhatsApp Web?
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Dec 14, 2015 1:17 AM in response to jodytateby svkrzn,Looks like after deleting the cache from that folder I have that issue with iTunes Re: Music.app doesn't display all the artwork
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Dec 28, 2015 1:57 PM in response to jodytateby swvanderlaan,Wow. At my side the size is 35+ Gb. Just move the contents to a folder on my External Drive. And will restart to see what happens - whether the Mac still functions...
Another thing I noticed is that since the laste El Capitan update (10.11.2) and the last iOS update (9.2) both my iPad and my iPhone lost space to the infamous "Other"-category (when you plug the iDevice in on iTunes). Just wondering if these two issues are connected: could it be that the ridiculous size of the com.apple.bird directory is causing to also increase the "Other"-category on the iPad/iPhone? So there's an hypothesis. What do you guys think?
Cheers!
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Mar 8, 2016 12:00 PM in response to AntoniCanovasby Hanani,thanks ! going to delete mine too Macbook pro 15 new....
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Mar 9, 2016 9:41 PM in response to jodytateby John Chile,Don't delete that folder. Instead, run
brctl diagnose
I run it and my folder went from 70Gb to 0B.
You should run this post also: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/220007/what-is-com-apple-bird-why-does- it-grow-so-big
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Apr 2, 2016 1:36 PM in response to jodytateby Marcio_Brazil,dear good afternoon,
I just deleted the folder Apple Bird, and my MacBook is still impeccable, no problem if you delete this folder.
Regards,
Marcio_Brazil
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May 14, 2016 1:55 AM in response to John Chileby ChrisBedford,Hmm, I just ran "brctl diagnose" and all it did was prepare a .gz file for me to upload somewhere. It actually reduced your apple bird folder? You sure you didn't also do something else about the same time?
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Jun 2, 2016 11:45 AM in response to ChrisBedfordby frichark,Hi ChrisBedford,
you are right.
Another solution that worked for me is described here
