Mar 09, 2021 Click on the Apple Logo in the top left. Go to About This Mac. Wait while it calculates. Eventually you will see a bar chart showing what types of files are taking up space on your. Open Finder and click on Downloads from the left sidebar. Click on the word ‘ Size’ to arrange the items by size. This will help you locate the large files quickly. To delete, right-click on the file and choose Move to Trash. You may also select the files (s) and press Command + Delete. The contents of which seem to be random images from my Photos Library. (I have about 60gb worth and use iCloud Storage to sync all items). I'm not sure where these are from, what this cache is for, but I'd like to reclaim the space and delete them. Im sure that it's not going to delete the originals out of my Photo Library, but can't be sure. You can remove an add-in that you've previously sideloaded on Windows, Mac, or iOS by clearing the Office cache on your computer. Additionally, if you make changes to your add-in's manifest (for example, update file names of icons or text of add-in commands), you should clear the Office cache and then re-sideload the add-in using updated manifest.

Delete music and music videos

• To delete music from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, use the Apple Music app or the Settings app.
• To delete music from your Mac or Android device, use the Apple Music app.

How to delete items in the Apple Music app

1. Open the Apple Music app and find the item that you want to delete. If you see the download button next to the item, the item is stored in the cloud, not on your device. When items are stored in the cloud, they don't use any storage on your device.
2. On your Mac, hover your pointer over the item, then click the More options button that appears.
   Or on your iPhone, iPad, or Android phone, press and hold the item that you want to delete.
   
3. Tap or click Remove.
   
4. From the menu that appears, choose Remove or Remove Download. Or choose 'Delete from Library' to remove the item from all devices that you use with Apple Music.

How to delete music in Settings on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Tap General, then tap iPhone Storage or iPad Storage.
3. Scroll to Music, then tap it.
4. Swipe left on any artist, album, or song. Or if you want to delete all music, swipe left on All Songs.
   
5. Tap Delete.
   

More about deleting music that you purchased

If you deleted an item from your device and you don't want the item to stream to your device or appear in the cloud, hide the item.

If you used your computer and a USB cable to manually sync the music or music videos to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, turn off syncing.

Delete movies and TV shows

• To delete videos that you downloaded to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, use the Apple TV app or the Settings app.
• To delete videos that you downloaded to your Mac, use the Apple TV app.

Delete items in the Apple TV app

1. Open the Apple TV app.
2. Tap or click Library.
3. To delete an item from your Mac, hover your pointer over the item, click the More options button , then click Remove Download.
   To delete an item on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, tap Downloaded, swipe left on the item, tap Delete, then Delete Download.
   

Delete movies or TV shows in Settings on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Tap General, then tap iPhone Storage or iPad Storage.
3. Scroll to TV, tap it, then tap Review Apple TV Downloads. If you don't see Review Apple TV Downloads, you don't have anything downloaded to your device.
   
4. Find the movie, show, or episode that you want to delete, then swipe left on it and tap Delete.
   

If you can't delete your movies or TV shows

If you see the download button next to the item, the item is stored in the cloud and isn't using storage on your device. If you don't want the item to appear in the cloud, hide the item.

If you used your computer and a USB cable to manually sync movies and TV shows to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, turn off syncing.

Movie rentals automatically delete at the end of the rental period.

Delete apps and other media

Learn more

• Because you don't download media on your Apple TV, you can't delete songs or shows from your Apple TV. But if you don't want to see a song, movie, or TV show on your Apple TV, use your computer to hide it.
• Learn how to check the storage on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, or how to free up storage space on your Mac.
• Learn how to redownload items that you purchased.
• Depending on your country or region, you might not be able to buy or download certain types of media. Learn what's available in your country or region.

Click here to return to the 'Delete caches and save disk space' hint

I've been a fan of the free JDiskReport for finding files and folders sitting there taking up space.

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For an Intel equivalent of the disk space usage, try Disk Inventory, also free.
Also, to skip the typing everytime & for a graphical interface, these options are available in both maintenance tools of Onyx and iTweax.
The heavier-duty Onyx actually doesn't indicate the amount used by the Cache, which the light-weight iTweax does.

I recently recovered 5 gigs of hard drive space using Tiger Cache Cleaner. My iBook also starts up and runs noticeably faster now.

$ du -k ~/Library/Caches/ | sort -n
Great for spotting where that space is going
(you may need to sudo it)
$ sudo -k ~/Library/Caches/ | sort -n > du_cache.txt
to get a text file

I tried this:
Doesn't work...

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I meant to add, that I want to add something like this to my ~/.bashrc:

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Father of Jeremy Logan

Can I Delete Library Containers Mac Pdf

just use a . (ie. period) in place of pwd... and no quotes. FYI: in unix the . stands for the current directory and a .. stands for the parent directory.

It's easier than that!
du -k | sort -n
du defaults to the present directory

AppleJack, among other things, will clean both system and user caches, as well as feed the pets and repair your permissions. Welll, maybe not the pets thing, but it is a lovely program.

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Can I Delete Library Containers Machine

I'm not sure if this hint has been posted before but if you get info on each application file there are installed language options. I went through all of my apps and deleted all of them except english. Most times this will halve the size of the app. Apple is notorious for installing 12 different languages for each app. I believe there is an apple script that does this automatically too.

Just be careful about deleting some application localizations. Some applications may have dependencies to those localizations. Some time ago, I remember a problem when someone tried to delete localizations, and they ended up having to reinstall that application.

Yep, certain apps can mysteriously misbehave after you've deleted their language localization files. And Apple software updates can reinstall ones you've deleted so it's not necessarily a one-time removal routine.
I don't see any reason to risk removing those files unless reclaiming disk space is a necessity and there are no safer alternatives.

Can I Delete Library Containers Mac Download

I can recommend Monolingual (monolingual.sourceforge.net), a neat little software that does just that - removes language resources you don't want/need. I've been using it for a couple of years now without problems (making sure never to remove any of the English varieties (my system language).
Anders

Can I Delete Library Containers Machinery

Just for reference, I will reiterate what has already been said about the long-term importance (or lack there of) of files in the ~/Library/Caches directory.
Recently I discovered a bug in an application (the producer of said application was 'some kind of fruit company' who shall remain nameless), and the top level tech that I was working with confirmed that its no big deal to delete the contents of the ~/Library/Caches directory.
I'm not advocating that you empty the directory and then lock the folder so that it can never be populated, nor am I advocating that you empty the directory at all. I'm simply stating that you can empty the directory and its not a big deal.
If your Caches folder is out of control, then you should think about some sort of cleaning.
For comparison purposes, here are the current sizes for my (Mac OS X created) Caches folders:
/Library/Caches
24.7 MB
/System/Library/Caches
11.6 MB
/private/var/root/Library/Caches
16 KB
~/Library/Caches
80.2 MB
The oldest directory within the ~/Library/Caches directory was modified Apr 4 2006.

I'd be cautious deleting ~/Library/Caches/Metadata because it contains Spotlight proxy files used by iCal, Safari, and other apps. Something will eventually trigger those files to be regenerated but before that happens Spotlight searching may be temporarily crippled. I discovered that awhile ago with Safari bookmarks and eventually deleted and restored the Bookmarks.plist file to force proxy files to be rebuilt after other methods had failed to do it.

Can I Delete Library Containers Machine

First, a true confession: Until very recently (i.e. today) I didn't know about the need to periodically delete the cache and as a result, mine was gigantic.
I deleted the cache by dragging it into the trash and then emptying the trash. Then I told the computer to restart. I understand it takes awhile to rebuild the cache, but I'm not sure what 'awhile' means. It's been almost 2 hours now and I'm wondering if that's normal for the (gulp) years worth of stuff that was stored in my cache. How many hours should I let this continue before taking some other action?
Thanks for your help.