Hey Guys..!
I am troubling with my storage volume on my macbook air. My free space is only 3.63 gb and I do not how to handle it. I read some articles on the web and found out I have a lot of unnecessary items on ".cleverfiles" of Macintosh HD. They are probably locked document or something else cause whenever I try to delete them they appear again in the same file. Could you please help me how to delete them ?
MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
Show hidden files in Finder. Locate the .cleverfiles folder and move to the trash
Show hidden files in Finder. Locate the .cleverfiles folder and move to the trash
Application called Disk Drill created them. You can get rid of them by deleting the application in its settings there is a button and it will also ask you whether you want to keep those files for recovery or not.
I had the same problem. .cleverfiles is a hidden area created by the application Disk Drill. If "Guarenteed Protection" is enabled (i believe it is by default) it moves all deleted files to the hidden folder instead of actually deleting them. You can disable it altogether or configure to only keep certain Folders or only user a certain amount of space. I didn't know the feature existed and It was hard to find even after I read it exisited. From the main disk drill screen, expand the main drive, and select "Potect" next to the Hard Drive.
was puzzled for the longest time why I had so little disk space. i just installed/uninstalled disk drill about 5-6 times and it freed up 10-20 GB of space EACH time, make sure u check delete protected data during the install.
not sure how the .cleverfiles folder got created in the first place, about a year ago i had a disaster recovery scenario and i used disk drill to recover deleted data so maybe then?
If you have an App called DaisyDisk then you can analyze the Hard Disk and then delete the .cleverfiles easily.
I have tried to delete .cleverfiles 6.4 GB on my Mac Air after I analyzed the hard disk with DaisyDisk, but it didn't work. What was wrong, I don't
know. Do you have an idea?
Ekkehard
How to delete .cleverfiles on my mac air ??
