On Mar 23, 2012, at 15:23 , Wendi Williams wrote: > Thanks, Bill! > > I tried running the daily, weekly and monthly maintenance routines, but to no > avail. So I made the hidden files visible again and checked further to see > where that 135GB lives. This is the path: > > private/var/log/asl/ > > I started going through them in search of a very large file, but there are > 2,059 files there! They all have names that appear to include dates, i.e., > 2012.03.23.U501.asl. It says they are Adobe Photoshop styles files, and they > go all the way back to Feb., 2010. Some of them have an additional 10 digits > after "asl." and those appear to be larger files - in the vicinity of 350MB > each. Do you know if I can delete these files?
From what I can tell, these are Apple system logs. There is some good advice about what to do here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=641936 I would pay attention to the instructions from 'plinden' which have you stop syslogd etc. I would ignore the instructions from 'Stachelsk' which tells you to blindly delete everything in your log directory. Keep reading through the discussion, because you probably should look through some of the logs to see what is causing them to grow so fast. Bill
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