{"id":3294,"date":"2016-11-28T15:11:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T07:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2016-11-28T15:11:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T07:11:22","slug":"cleaning-up-the-mac-backup-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2016\/11\/28\/cleaning-up-the-mac-backup-edition","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning up the Mac, backup edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I realised that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2016\/08\/02\/com-apple-bird-getting-large\">com.apple.bird was getting too large<\/a> and it was easy to purge it. I had to do this again.<\/p>\n<p>The app I use to see where my space is going is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/more\">OmniDiskSweeper<\/a>. Its free, and I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>I use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arqbackup.com\/\">Arq<\/a> to handle backups (in addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/#af9794\">Backblaze<\/a>, and CrashPlan), and today I noticed that ~\/Library\/Arq\/ had a huge (32.7GB) Cache.noindex. Apparently it is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arqbackup\/status\/461812175515168768\">safe to delete<\/a>, so that&#8217;s what I have done. <\/p>\n<p>I also notice a large \/Library\/Backblaze.bzpkg &#8211; 8.1GB &#8211; and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ialexryan\/status\/430968070480224256\">apparently<\/a> you can&#8217;t delete it. The penalty you pay for keeping offsite backups?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I suddenly have a lot more free space. 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