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Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. This tutorial will show you where the temp folders are located on Mac OS and how you can access them. This probably goes without saying, but this is aimed only at advanced Mac users. If for whatever reason you want to clear out the temporary items files on a Mac , simply reboot the computer to target system level temp files, while user level caches and temp files can be manually cleaned out if necessary for some reason or another.
Again, do not attempt to manually modify anything and do not delete any files found in the Mac OS system temp folders. To be thorough, you can also use printenv to print environmental variables and use grep like so:. Alternatively, you can also change the current working directory at the command lien to the temporary directory from the command line with a simple cd command:. Another temporary directory in Mac OS is universal to all users, found at the following location:.
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Click again to start watching. Is it right? In addition, are there other times in trying to clean up the directory? After a fresh backup has completed, here is how to delete and clear cache and temp files from the active user:. If you are aiming to clean out web browser caches, a better approach is to empty cache in Safari on the Mac or empty cache in Chrome on the Mac , both of which can be done directly from the web browser apps themselves.
As mentioned multiple times, it is not necessary nor is it recommended to manually remove and clean caches yourself like this, unless you have a specific reason to do so, typically for troubleshooting.
The above method covers deleting and cleaning out caches and temporary files from the active user account, but the Mac system software and system level apps can also create temporary files and cache files. There are various system level cache files and folders and most of them should never be manually interfered with, doing so can result in all sorts of unexpected behaviors or worse.
So what should you do? The safest way to clean out the Mac system caches and temporary system files is by simply rebooting the Mac as discussed here. This is as easy as it gets:. This includes Mac system caches like sleep images, swap and virtual memory, tmp folders, completed software updates, Mac App Store caches , and much more. Do you have any particular experiences, opinions, or thoughts about clearing caches and cleaning temporary files from a Mac?
Let us know in the comments! Get more of our great Apple tips, tricks, and important news delivered to your inbox with the OSXDaily newsletter. Backup is a good idea. I back important files up every month in case of Mac breakdown.
If it still runs slow, check if there are too many duplicate files taking up space. I tried many software to help me deal with it. And they disappear. No problem. But some sites remain. Does anyone know how I can delete these as well? Drives me crazy. Also I thought i could control what is stored and yet these sites overide my decision to remove them, Many thanks in advance. Onyx is so much easier than all this manual stuff….
BTW, advising people to uninstall virus software is irresponsible. Macs are not immune — especially to damaging malware, spyware, phishing attacks. GOOD anti-virus software has negligible impact on the speed of a Mac.
What slows Macs. Remove that stuff and any Mac. Especially not if you do a lot of web surfing and use social media junk from your Mac. Uninstall any antivirus. Those slowdown Macs to a crawl. Update OX, and restart puter once per week. I have an issue that I am hoping someone out there might be able to assist me with. Many thanks in advance. I am a very front end user so is this thread relevant to 5 Gb of files that are listed as purgeable when i go the get info function for my internal hard disk, my technical knowledge is limited and i am very keen not to do something that will upset the functioning of mt rMBP.
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