What is coresymbolicationd, what's it used for and why it's taking up 7.3GB of my disk space?

The /System/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd/data is a single file of 7.3GB size, it doesn't seem important for it's in Caches folder.

Shall I delete it or is there a good reason to keep it? A cache file taking up so huge space ought to be beneficial to the user, no?

Thank you~

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Aug 15, 2015 9:27 PM

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Aug 15, 2015 11:11 PM in response to Kappy

I've done it, restart is smooth, nothing peculiar happened, except for the extra 7.3GB free disk space that I got.

I entered Time Machine and realized that that folder (/System/Library/Caches/) is not even backed up by Time Machine, this means apple deemed unimportant, So I think deleting it should be okay.


However I agree with you, deleting hidden system caches shouldn't be done very often, apple kept it hidden for a reason. But doing it once or twice a year should do nobody no harm~

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