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)
That folder should not even be accessible to the user. That leads me to believe you should leave it alone. There is nothing odd about it's size.
That's excessively large. You can delete it after backing up all data, then reboot. There's a slight chance that you'll be unable to boot; in that case, boot in Recovery mode and reinstall OS X.
If that's true, then what size should it be?
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~
What is coresymbolicationd, what's it used for and why it's taking up 7.3GB of my disk space?
