iLifeAssetManagement folder ever increasing

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iLifeAssetManagement folder ever increasing

Trid to sort an issue with Applecare today. The above folder (which resides inside Library>Application Support) seems to be increasing by the minute currently up to 306.77GB's. After a Google search Apple thought it was connected to Photo Stream and would be fine to delete (after making a back-up first). I have disabled Photo Stream within Aperture (although it did seem to magically turn on a few weeks ago - user error probably - and upload my Aperture library to Photo Stream).

Wondered if anyone else has had a similar issue and thoughts on deleting the folder.

Thanks in advance.

now up to 306.83GB's!

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Apr 5, 2012 1:25 PM

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mlivey01 Author

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Apr 6, 2012 2:45 AM in response to mlivey01

312GB's...

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Apr 29, 2012 9:06 AM in response to mlivey01

Similar issue here. Have you managed to resolve it? Cheers.

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mlivey01 Author

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Apr 29, 2012 9:29 AM in response to akakoudakis

Hi

Thankfully yes.

I relocated the contents of the folder to an external drive as a back up. Then deleted everything from the ILifeManagement folder.

Seems to be related to Photo Stream.

All fine since then.

Matt

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guid0

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Apr 30, 2012 10:41 AM in response to mlivey01

I tried that and it just kept creating new subfolders inside another folder called 'sub'.

It is indeed Photostream-related...Photostream copied hundreds of my RAW files (located on my 2nd drive) over to sub (on my SSD) and messed up my entire library. Grrrr. Downloading LR now...that does it.

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mlivey01 Author

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Apr 30, 2012 11:01 AM in response to guid0

Maybe dump the sub folder and hopefully it that will stop recreating the subfolders.

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Gilles

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Aug 10, 2012 2:26 AM in response to mlivey01

I've got the same problem.

I've stopped photo stream in Iphoto, and the asset maangement folder went back to zero.

It contains all the photo downloaded from photo stream.

Is it possible to move this folder location to an external drive ?

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kaos61

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Aug 12, 2012 6:19 PM in response to Gilles

same problem, I started to track the size of my folders and bumped into this ILifeAssetManagement folder. it keeps a copy of every single photo downloaded by Photostream. That's really non sense as this is a hardisk space killer!. When we activate Photo Stream there should be a warning saying that our hard disk space will be compromised because of this. I'll move the folder to an external drive but I wonder the problem will continue if I don't stop photo stream (which I wouldn't like to do it).

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