Macbook Pro 15in (early 2008)
OS X 10.8.5
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
HD space : 200GB
I'm trying to free up space from my computer using OmniDisk Sweeper and I find out that I have 30GB of files in private/var/tmp. They're all named "tmp.(numbers).(letters+numbers) and range from 12kb to 175MB each. Can I get rid of these safely (and how) or are they a no-no?
Thank you
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
Try doing a restart to reset the cache.
Exact same problem, identified by OmniDiskSweeper too! 30.9GB in private/var/tmp. Same pattern of file names.
Restarting hasn't helped, nor has manually running Mac OS C Maintenance Scripts.
Did you solve this Scarnage?
Use Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal -> lsof | grep -i 'tmp.[0-9]'
to see if any programs currently have any files open in /tmp that match your pattern. That might help identify the offending program.
Of course is the program is not running at the time, this will not tell you much.
You could use Terminal -> ls -l /tmp/tmp*
to see when the files are last modified, as a clue as to when they are being created. That might help identify when to look for a program that might have the file open.
30GB in private/var/tmp
