User Library Folder is over 100GB

Hi,

New to the forums and couldn't quite work out where to put this. I found my macbook pro (bought 2009) was running slow and that my hard drive space had only 56gb left. I didn't have any large files and found that my user/library folder is 136GB. Surely it isn't supposed to be this big? And I know you shouldn't delete stuff from the library but I have a feeling this is too big and it's taking up a huge amount of HD space.


It's a macbook pro, Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2.53 GHz processor speed, 4GB memory and the HD capacity says 249 GB (192GB used). Running on Snow Leopard.

If anyone had any advice/ help I would be very grateful. (I have applecare so would it b more advisable to book an appointment at my nearest Apple store?)

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jun 22, 2010 2:10 AM

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Posted on Jun 22, 2010 3:01 AM

Welcome to Apple Discussions 🙂

That's way to big, mine's 11.27GB with most of that in two folders, Mail and Application Support. I'd guess it's some run away log file or something like that going on.

Open the Library folder and then in View Options check Calculate all sizes then click the size column so it arranges them biggest to smallest.

If it's the Logs folder comes up top then do the same thing again and find which folder is gobbling the space, it won't do any harm to delete huge files in there but watch and see if they re-appear right away and if so post back here and we'll go deeper.

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Jun 22, 2010 3:01 AM in response to mrbencarter

Welcome to Apple Discussions 🙂

That's way to big, mine's 11.27GB with most of that in two folders, Mail and Application Support. I'd guess it's some run away log file or something like that going on.

Open the Library folder and then in View Options check Calculate all sizes then click the size column so it arranges them biggest to smallest.

If it's the Logs folder comes up top then do the same thing again and find which folder is gobbling the space, it won't do any harm to delete huge files in there but watch and see if they re-appear right away and if so post back here and we'll go deeper.

User uploaded file

Jun 22, 2010 3:17 AM in response to iVmichael

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your help. I've done that and 'caches' seems to come up as being 137GB, all the other folders seem sensible with application support second in the queue at only 194mb.

Within Caches, the Adobe folder> After effects> Media Cache files seems to be the culprit at 136GB

The files in media cache seem to be copies of what I have used in After effects but in a .cfa file format. Do you think it would be safe to delete these files?

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