David Losada

Q: No System/Library/Caches in El Capitan 10.11.4

Just applied the update to 10.11.4 from 10.11.3, and now there's no Caches folder in System/Library. Console is plagued with error messages related to the impossibility to access this inexistent folder.

Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), Macpro mid 2010

Posted on Mar 27, 2016 4:49 AM

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Q: No System/Library/Caches in El Capitan 10.11.4

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  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain Mar 27, 2016 5:05 AM in response to David Losada
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    Mar 27, 2016 5:05 AM in response to David Losada

    It should be there

    Screen Shot 2016-03-27 at 7.58.33 AM.png

    El Capitan now uses SIP so if you have a program that is trying to access that folder it won't be able to.

    About System Integrity Protection on your Mac - Apple Support

  • by David Losada,

    David Losada David Losada Mar 27, 2016 7:05 AM in response to dialabrain
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    Mar 27, 2016 7:05 AM in response to dialabrain

    Thanks for your help, dialabrain.

     

    I had it there under 10.11.3. But right after updating to 10.11.4, it disappeared.

     

    Now I've dosabled totally the SIP aberration, and the System has recreated the Caches folder. As it should.

     

    El Capitán has been a total nightmare, mostly due to SIP. I think I will leave it disabled. It simply doesn't work.

  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain Mar 27, 2016 7:10 AM in response to David Losada
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    Mar 27, 2016 7:10 AM in response to David Losada

    i think some of the problems people have with updating is third-party apps that interfere. I didn't have the disappearing cache folder issue going from 10.11.3 to 10.11.4.

     

    Welcome.

  • by David Losada,

    David Losada David Losada Mar 27, 2016 7:28 AM in response to dialabrain
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    Mar 27, 2016 7:28 AM in response to dialabrain

    Sure. But all those issues should be cleared by the own system through SystemMigration.

     

    And in no way should the System be prevented to create a folder in System. ¿Where were things so critical as

     

    file:///System/Library/Caches/com.apple.app-sandbox-cache.plist

    file:///System/Library/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd/

    file:///System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/

    file:///System/Library/Caches/com.apple.xpc.extensions.cache

    file:///System/Library/Caches/com.apple.xpchelper.cache

     

    that reside in System/Library/Caches while I was without this folder?

     

    Best regards from Spain.

  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain Mar 27, 2016 7:30 AM in response to David Losada
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    Mar 27, 2016 7:30 AM in response to David Losada

    I couldn't tell you. I had my cache folder. And since I don't know where yours went, I don't know where the contents went if there were any.