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Disk space disappearing overnight

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)

Posted on Dec 19, 2013 6:06 AM

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Mar 11, 2014 7:19 AM in response to applemacusr

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)

Disk space disappearing overnight

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