ilife Media Browser eats up disk space - how can it be stopped?

I've been plagued by hard drive space disappearing. 30 GB can disappear in an hour. If I don't catch it time, I can't save any open work and can't even empty the trash. I've lost lost of work this way. When I restart the space all comes back.


I've identified the culprit:


Library/Containers/com.apple.MediaLibraryService/Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.iLifeMediaBrowser.ILPhotosTranscodeCache


This fills with thousands of files -- photos and videos. I can throw all these files in the trash and empty and that gets my space back without requiring a restart, but as said if I don't catch it in time I can lose work. And then in a day or two it starts filling up again.


I'd like this to stop. I have no app called iLife Media Browser. From what I've been able to find, this may be part of Garage Band, which I rarely ever use, and if I did I would not use photos and videos in Garage Band (?!)


Does anyone have any ideas of how I can fix this? Thanks!


MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Oct 23, 2020 4:02 AM

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Posted on Oct 27, 2020 8:47 AM

Solved.


After struggling with this for months, I followed someone's advice for a fix that couldn't possibly work. I went to the Screen Saver control panel, where I had selected a photo screen saver with a folder of standard Apple landscape pictures. I switched to one of the CG screen savers (I picked Arabesque).


It's working. I used to have a problem every day or two - so often that I made a shortcut to the cache folder so I could find it and empty it quicker. Now it's been 4 days and the problem seems to have gone away.

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Oct 27, 2020 8:47 AM in response to mnaylor375

Solved.


After struggling with this for months, I followed someone's advice for a fix that couldn't possibly work. I went to the Screen Saver control panel, where I had selected a photo screen saver with a folder of standard Apple landscape pictures. I switched to one of the CG screen savers (I picked Arabesque).


It's working. I used to have a problem every day or two - so often that I made a shortcut to the cache folder so I could find it and empty it quicker. Now it's been 4 days and the problem seems to have gone away.

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