Nearly anything that's a cache file either in the System caches
/Library/Caches
or in the user account caches
~/Library/Caches
is safe to delete as they are created automatically by applications at
run time.
The most likely location for temp files that are erroneously not
disposed of is in
~/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems
If there's anything in there, I would just delete it and then run the
Disk Utility file system verify as I wrote in a previous note. Be sure
no other applications are running when you delete the contents of
TemporaryItems, of course.
G
On Nov 13, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote:
Dave, try searching by date and time for when you aborted the copy.
As you can imagine, shutting the computer down mid-copy leaves the
directory and it's branch/leaf structure completely hosed as regards
the copy's temp files.
Note that temp files are frequently named nothing like the file
being copied, but more like sxdsa823n12987askjdhy29838674r2ojhd.
6fdswdrt67 Unfortunately, so are some log files, and temp files the
finder writes to help it keep track of what's open, hidden, deleted
to trash, etc..
What I'm saying is that this could be a very difficult task, unless,
perchance, all the files are in one folder (probably a hidden one).
So make hidden files and folders viewable, and think about what you
are seeing, and where it is located on the drive.
Someone may be able to identify the temp folder that you can delete
without making a bad boo boo. (It may equal the size of the missing
gigs of storage, though it may show as 0 size just as easily)
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