Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Every morning when I come in my Mac Pro says I'm out of disk. I've moved pretty much everything I could each time, so now time to find the culprit.
I ran GrandPerspective and located a strange folder that is over 100GB. Its - /private/var/folders/rz/SOME RANDOM CHARACTERS AND NUMBERS/C/com.apple.AddressBook/com.apple.AddressBook.thumbnailcache.
Been searching around, but can't find anything with a solution.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
A senior tech walked me through it on the phone - it did involve logging in as a root user and throwing away the offending file - but I don't know the specific details enough to pass them on. And as a disclaimer, that file is growing again - last time I Iooked it was up to 15 Gb. So the fix didn't hold although it's nowhere as bad as originally (70 Gb)
I wanted to bring this up again since there have been a couple OS updates since then, and my space is still fluctuating wildly. I can't even install the most recent update because of it. What's the best way for someone who isn't terribly comfortable in things like Terminal to deal with this?
Disk space disappearing overnight
