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Q: Textedit documents are gibberish and taking up space

I'm using Disk inventory x to look at what's on my computer because 75 of the 120 GB of storage is classified as other. According to Disk Inventory X, 16 GB are text edit documents, but when I open them they are just full of random characters.

For example, these are the first few lines to one of them.

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They range in size from 203 MB to 95 KB.

What are these files for, and can I delete them?

Posted on Jun 12, 2015 12:04 AM

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