Sonoma Aerial Wallpaper Storage Size and Location

After installing MacOS Sonoma I downloaded the wallpaper shuffle for all aerials (135 aerials). I later thought about the large size of files I was downloading, and wanted to know where the new wallpapers for sonoma were stored, so I found them at the location: (/Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer/4KSDR240FPS).


When I found them I decided to see how much storage they were taking up. It says I have 85 downlaoded which are taking up in total 45 gigabites of storage on my computer, this is crazy and I don't want this make of my disk taken up by wallpapers!


However, when I go to settings -> general -> Storage, it doesn't show them in any category. Is MacOS hiding them, are they not actually stored on my computer, what is going on?


I tested the wallpapers without wifi on and they still loaded, so they are not stored on the cloud.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 14.0

Posted on Oct 2, 2023 12:36 PM

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Oct 2, 2023 12:46 PM in response to Matthew-Staber

Matthew-Staber wrote:

After installing MacOS Sonoma I downloaded the wallpaper shuffle for all aerials (135 aerials). I later thought about the large size of files I was downloading, and wanted to know where the new wallpapers for sonoma were stored, so I found them at the location: (/Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer/4KSDR240FPS).

When I found them I decided to see how much storage they were taking up. It says I have 85 downlaoded which are taking up in total 45 gigabites of storage on my computer, this is crazy and I don't want this make of my disk taken up by wallpapers!

However, when I go to settings -> general -> Storage, it doesn't show them in any category. Is MacOS hiding them, are they not actually stored on my computer, what is going on?

I tested the wallpapers without wifi on and they still loaded, so they are not stored on the cloud.


you can refer to couple articles here—


see purgeable storage—

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


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



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