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Excuse the questions of a relative newbie but ....
Every now and then I need to run Windows and am running Fusion on OSX 10.5.x and all is well.
I am trying to find out where private/var/folders is so I can give rights to Fusion to access it but just cannot seem to find where it is. Can a kind person please point me in the right direction.
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Select the Finder menu Go. In the drop down menu select Go to Folder.... In the dialog box type /var and click the Go button. This will create a Finder window to the var directory.
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Select the Finder menu Go. In the drop down menu select Go to Folder.... In the dialog box type /var and click the Go button. This will create a Finder window to the var directory.
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Related: It is safe delete OSX's /private/var/folders/* at reboot? at superuser SE
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I used above query: cd /private/var/folders for i in ; do if [ "$i" != "zz" ]; then sudo rm -rf "$i"; fi; done sudo rm -rf zz/ then couldn't boot mac afterward. Had to reinstall the OS.
– Aerin
Jun 30 '17 at 17:55
Did you cd to the correct folder first? Otherwise it would trash some pretty random stuff...
– Tetsujin
Jun 30 '17 at 18:01
of course I went to /private/var/folders first... something other than zz should be preserved I guess.
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Jun 30 '17 at 18:13
El Capitan, 2017 June.
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tbh, I've never actually tried it - it was just a research & publish, with accreditation.
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Somehow the second part of your question contradicts the first.
– nohillside ♦
Aug 24 '17 at 16:05
Could you please define "stuff"?
– fd0
Aug 24 '17 at 17:07
I deleted this folder on a 2013 Macbook air on Catalina. I haven't had any problems yet
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Aug 29 '20 at 3:19
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I have this folder /private/var/folders/bf/ with 3GB of what seems temporary files. Can I delete this folder?
You can safely delete anything in /private/var/folders/ but not the folder itself
Quit all apps before you do & reboot afterwards … and whatever you do, don't touch anything else in /private/var/ , and do not delete /private/var/folders/ itself.
Rumor has it that one should not delete /private/var/folders/zz . This article implies otherwise, but if you want to be on the safe side, use
From a general safety for the system integrity viewpoint:
Anything withinin the hierarchy of /private/var/folders/* can be deleted. zz included.
But a restart should reduce the amount of temporary files and data in there anyway.
Quitting well written applications does that too, as should a quick logout-login cycle.
The system will repopulate an empty /private/var/folders/* after it reboots.
From a practicality and consequences for the users viewpoint:
There is a small catch: it is probably not completely without side-effects to just wipe all and anything under folders there.
Although theses side-effects are few. Force deleting everything with sudo rm is possible but not the best option on a live system.
Some of those files might be currently in use. Thus making it difficult or unwise to just delete them all from a running system if one feels the need for that. You'd have to quit the processes using them first. This quitting the process is in itself, as stated above, often enough to have those files removed automatically.
If some databases, mainly generated by Apple processes, grow out of hand it might be necessary to move them to the trash, logout-login and then delete them.
A small number of applications or services may store some of the preferences there.
One example is NotificationCenter (NC) with your settings in there: your choice of applications and what of them to be 'in' there. NC rebuilds its preferences with everything in NC enabled. If you have many Apps and prefer most of them to not disturb you this is quite annoying even if only done once.
But then it is not really essential data that gets lost in this way.
Since this practice is highly non-standard, it looks only Apple violates its own guidelines: I can't remember any third-party application storing important, not-supposed to be volatile, and non-temporary data in this hierarchy.
Therefore it is best to locate which of these folders belongs to your most active user, go in there and look for the biggest offenders to delete them manually. It is also prudent to learn which of your apps leave so much stuff behind. Quitting and restarting an actively cluttering app might often be enough to gain some space there. If the second catch is of concern, spare those files related to e.g. NC from deletion.
On Catalina, I have restarted my Macbook in recovery mode (CMD+R at startup). Then, I have opened the terminal to disable the system integrity protection by typing csrutil disable . Then, I restarted in normal mode. I closed all applications. I ran disk utility and clicked on first aid for my system drive.
Then, I went to /private/var/folders/. It is now 2019 and I have found that some folders weren't modified since 2016 and 2017.
Then, I copied the zz folder content to a USB drive. I went to the zz folder and I deleted all the folders that were not from today. I went to the kt folder, I copied the content in my USB drive and I deleted the folders that were not from today inside the folders 0 and C and T. Before restarting I emptied the trash bin.
I unplugged my USB drive and I restarted in recovery mode, I re activated the system integrity protection, by typing csrutil enable in the terminal and that's it.
For what it is worth (meaning decide worth yourself :-), doing this is dangerous on Catalina (10.15). I did this on a Macbook Air after the upgrade to Catalina. It would not restart, and what a pain to recovery from Time Machine with bad internal screen.
I also had another bad screen Macbook Air (and bad keyboard, and bad trackpad, but I digress). I was paranoid because I use that for development. So instead I found online another trick. Holding the shift while booting make the Mac go into "safe mode". The Mac then booted into safe mode, and "sudo du -d 1 -h /private" confirmed 44GB. After another reboot back into regular Mac OS X and the same command showed 3GB.
BTW, this did not work with a regular keyboard, I had to find an apple keyboard.
Much safer, if a pain, to do that regularly. I tried the free cleaners, but none found those files/folders. And I'd rather not spend $30 - $80 on a cleaner that probably won't find them as well...
do a "safe boot" once in a while if bothered by the evergrowing caches...
the word ( apple kb article link - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262 ) is that it cleans caches out.
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