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A folder containing dynamic wallpapers and screen savers takes up more than 40 GB on my mac's storage and keeps coming back after I delete it.

After installing Mac OS sonoma beta for a few weeks my mac quickly ran out of storage. I did a scan using cleanmymac and found this huge folder in /Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer/:

I opened the folder and found it full of high-quality landscape videos, probably used for screen savers. I changed the wallpaper and the screen saver to something else, deleted the contents in this folder, and emptied the trash, but a few days later, the computer re-downloaded all of them and filled my storage again. How do I prevent these files from coming back?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 14.0

Posted on Sep 30, 2023 5:41 AM

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Sep 30, 2023 5:54 AM in response to Danielz42

Danielz42 wrote:

A folder containing dynamic wallpapers and screen savers takes up more than 40 GB on my mac's storage and keeps coming back after I delete it.

After installing Mac OS sonoma beta for a few weeks my mac quickly ran out of storage. I did a scan using cleanmymac



See if there is anything here—


ref:

see "purgeable storage"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/macos-14-sonoma-the-ars-technica-review


https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/16thw4m/deleting_the_new_sonoma_wallpapers/




The current stable release of Sonoma including bug fixes, security updates is macOS Sonoma 14.0 (23A344)

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Beta is not supported here—

Apple makes it very clear Betas are offered as is, and here is no support for them outside of the Feedback Assistant App. https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/submitting



<cleanmymac > known to caues nothing but issue on the macOS...


Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/Anti-Virus/VPN

all known to cause issues on the macOS





A folder containing dynamic wallpapers and screen savers takes up more than 40 GB on my mac's storage and keeps coming back after I delete it.

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