Excessive sysdiagnose.tar.gz files

If the sysdiagnose is not being manually triggered, then something is probably crashing.

Have a look ‘round the system for what might be crashing.

Look in the sysdiagnose file, too, for any clues there.

Run hardware diagnostics.

If you have add-on anti-virus or anti-malware or other kernel extensions, remote all that per the vendors’ instructions, and reboot.

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Etrecheck – System Information    10.10 and later

You are welcome. Have you tried disconnecting/disabling the VPN and Little Snitch to see if that makes a difference?

For clean up, see if you can find the file(s) using one of these programs. If you go Finder/View/Show Path Bar, it will show you where it is located.

EasyFind – Spotlight Replacement

Find Any File

Are you possibly accidentally pressing shift-control-command-option-period?

That’s all the modifier keys, plus period.

That’ll create these sysdiagnose files.