With your Home folder open, go to  View Show View Options from the menu bar, or use the keyboard shortcut  Command-J. At the bottom of the View Options window, check the box labeled  Show Library. Jan 30, 2019  First of all, you should visit macOS “Finder”. Then you must access user’s “Home” folder. From there, you need to pull down “View” menu and then select “Show View Options”. You should now select Show Library Folder in the settings option. Dec 12, 2016  How to Show /Library Folder in MacOS Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra. From the Mac OS Finder, go to the Users home folder. Pull down the “View” menu and choose “View Options”. Choose “Show Library Folder” in the settings options for the User home folder. May 01, 2019  There are actually three library folders on a Mac. The library folder in the root directory of your system drive (usually called Macintosh HD) contains data accessible to all users, but only.

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4. How To Find Cache
5. What Are Caches On Mac

Dec 23, 2018  How to Clear Cache on Mac Using FoneDog Mac Cleaner? Free Download. Open /Library/Caches and remove the contents of the folders with the app name. You can limit the cache size in the same menu, simply check the Override automatic cache management. Choose the default size of 350 MB, which is sufficient for most users' needs. This is the only place where on your Mac it shows the size of your apps, books, and documents in gigabytes. Where is Other Storage on a Mac. To show you where it is, let’s look at your Library. This is where your macOS keeps application components, widgets, and various cache archives. This part of your Mac is hidden from view for a reason. Nov 13, 2018  Hi guys, welcome to our 'How to Clear cache files on Mac OS' guide, so, today we will tell few Mac tips about how to clear cache files from Mac. We already explained in one of our articles what cache is. Not everyone may know that there are several types of cache files on Mac. Check how to clean cache on Mac manually or clear it with a click of a button. The easiest way to refresh cache and remove browsing data in macOS is the best Mac cache cleaner software. Try it now for free!

• Mac— /Library/Application Support. Sets the limit on content cache size in kilobytes. The limit is capped at 20% of the available space on the hard drive (regardless of the setting value).The setting does not apply to files made.
• Click the Finder's Go menu, then hold down the Alt key and click the Library menu item that is revealed. Locate the Caches sub-folder and right-click on it, then click the Get Info menu item. A window appears that shows information about the sub-folder, including the number of megabytes or gigabytes of data in it.

Click here to return to the 'Delete caches and save disk space' hint

I've been a fan of the free JDiskReport for finding files and folders sitting there taking up space.

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For an Intel equivalent of the disk space usage, try Disk Inventory, also free.
Also, to skip the typing everytime & for a graphical interface, these options are available in both maintenance tools of Onyx and iTweax.
The heavier-duty Onyx actually doesn't indicate the amount used by the Cache, which the light-weight iTweax does.

I recently recovered 5 gigs of hard drive space using Tiger Cache Cleaner. My iBook also starts up and runs noticeably faster now.

$ du -k ~/Library/Caches/ sort -n
Great for spotting where that space is going
(you may need to sudo it)
$ sudo -k ~/Library/Caches/ sort -n > du_cache.txt
to get a text file

I tried this:
Doesn't work..

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Father of Jeremy Logan

I meant to add, that I want to add something like this to my ~/.bashrc:

Clear Library Cache Mac

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Father of Jeremy Logan

just use a . (ie. period) in place of pwd.. and no quotes. FYI: in unix the . stands for the current directory and a . stands for the parent directory.

It's easier than that!
du -k sort -n
du defaults to the present directory

AppleJack, among other things, will clean both system and user caches, as well as feed the pets and repair your permissions. Welll, maybe not the pets thing, but it is a lovely program.

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I'm not sure if this hint has been posted before but if you get info on each application file there are installed language options. I went through all of my apps and deleted all of them except english. Most times this will halve the size of the app. Apple is notorious for installing 12 different languages for each app. I believe there is an apple script that does this automatically too.

Just be careful about deleting some application localizations. Some applications may have dependencies to those localizations. Some time ago, I remember a problem when someone tried to delete localizations, and they ended up having to reinstall that application.

Yep, certain apps can mysteriously misbehave after you've deleted their language localization files. And Apple software updates can reinstall ones you've deleted so it's not necessarily a one-time removal routine.
I don't see any reason to risk removing those files unless reclaiming disk space is a necessity and there are no safer alternatives.

I can recommend Monolingual (monolingual.sourceforge.net), a neat little software that does just that - removes language resources you don't want/need. I've been using it for a couple of years now without problems (making sure never to remove any of the English varieties (my system language).
Anders

Just for reference, I will reiterate what has already been said about the long-term importance (or lack there of) of files in the ~/Library/Caches directory.
Recently I discovered a bug in an application (the producer of said application was 'some kind of fruit company' who shall remain nameless), and the top level tech that I was working with confirmed that its no big deal to delete the contents of the ~/Library/Caches directory.
I'm not advocating that you empty the directory and then lock the folder so that it can never be populated, nor am I advocating that you empty the directory at all. I'm simply stating that you can empty the directory and its not a big deal.
If your Caches folder is out of control, then you should think about some sort of cleaning.
For comparison purposes, here are the current sizes for my (Mac OS X created) Caches folders:
/Library/Caches
24.7 MB
/System/Library/Caches
11.6 MB
/private/var/root/Library/Caches
16 KB
~/Library/Caches
80.2 MB
The oldest directory within the ~/Library/Caches directory was modified Apr 4 2006.

I'd be cautious deleting ~/Library/Caches/Metadata because it contains Spotlight proxy files used by iCal, Safari, and other apps. Something will eventually trigger those files to be regenerated but before that happens Spotlight searching may be temporarily crippled. I discovered that awhile ago with Safari bookmarks and eventually deleted and restored the Bookmarks.plist file to force proxy files to be rebuilt after other methods had failed to do it.

First, a true confession: Until very recently (i.e. today) I didn't know about the need to periodically delete the cache and as a result, mine was gigantic.
I deleted the cache by dragging it into the trash and then emptying the trash. Then I told the computer to restart. I understand it takes awhile to rebuild the cache, but I'm not sure what 'awhile' means. It's been almost 2 hours now and I'm wondering if that's normal for the (gulp) years worth of stuff that was stored in my cache. How many hours should I let this continue before taking some other action?
Thanks for your help.

How To Check Mac Library Cache Size Windows 10

Click here to return to the 'Check your browser's cache to recover drive space' hint

I've noticed the same thing on my machine (same OS and browser versions). It seems like perhaps IE disregards the Cache Size setting completely. And of course, since the cache is in a web archive, it's not simple to go remove just the oldest or largest offending items. (Is that even possible?)
Has anyone seen a copy of IE on OS X behave properly in this regard?

Mine works just the way it should. The Cache setting in IE's preferences is your 'web page cache'. The Download cache is something completely different. It is your incomplete downloads being stored. Your actual cache file for web pages you've viewed is stored here:
/Users/UserName/Library/Caches/MS Internet Cache/IE Cache.waf
At least this is where mine is located. Mine is set to 100MB in my preferences and the cache file in the above location is exactly the same.

Sudo Editor
I have been trying to sort out I.E. and Entourage cache since November but remain baffled.
I'm assuming you're referring to the download cache file found at ~/user/Library/Preferences/Explorer/ named 'Download Cache.' In OS X this is essentially the equivalent directory to OS9 /System Folder/Preferences/Explorer which has a file of the same name.
But to stray off topic a bit, what about the ~/user/Library/Caches/MS Internet Cache directory?
Two are created when IE is launched. The other is created by Entourage. Why does Entourage need a cache? I don't believe Mail.app, Eudora et al have a 'cache.' Why is the size of the Entourage controlled by pref settings ('Advanced') in I.E.? After using both apps, why does the content of one 'IE cache file' contain data from both?
One IE file apparently is a 'conventional' cache file (or directory in the instance of Mozilla), but why the need for a second that shares data with Entourage? Why does IE pref setting control Entourage's cache size?
Puzzling. There are obvious files elsewhere which contain the data and pref files for both. But what about the two 'extra' cache files in the MS Internet Cache directory?

So Internet Explorer does leave these entirely large cache files even when you have your web cache set very low (mine is set to 0k all the time). So what's the deal?
Easy- the Download Cache is just that, your downloads. In preferences somewhere (I forget where) is a setting to remember the last X number of downloads. IE has a funny feature where it will actually not only remember the URL and where it was saved, but it also duplicates + caches the portion of any unfinished downloads. That's why, when resuming an unfinished download, you might see a very high speed for a few seconds as it re-loads the beginning of the file from this Download Cache. If you clear out your Download Manager completely (cmd+a [select all], cmd+delete [delete all/no confirmation]), your cache file should reduce in size. If it doesn't then you can manually delete the Download Cache file.
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In IE prefs - Receiving Files - Download Options, there is a setting to remember the last 'x' completed downloads. However, mine is set to 10, and I know that the 10 pdf files I downloaded from my econ class did not take up 400 MB of space. I think this is where it would be controlled though, even if it doesn't seem to work.

This script will help with this:
'When IE Cache Trasher is run, if the download cache exists, a dialog will display the size of the cache in kilobytes and give you the option to delete it. Depending on your choice, IE Cache Trasher will inform you of the success of your choice, then quit.'
http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=9444&db=mac

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I noticed this same problem yesterday, my cache is set at 20mb but the file was a whopping 1.8gb.
too big.

How To Find Cache

The same issue exists in OS9. The location of the ever-growing download cache file there is System Folder/Preferences/Explorer.
The easiest way to get rid of it in either OS is with an AppleScript.
With a broadband connection the best setting in preferences for the browser cache is probably -0-. This can be done in I.E., Mozilla, etc. With a decent connection you can reload a page again as fast as you can from cache and your hard drive isn't being pounded with thousands of little html and gif files.
In the bad old days (pre broad band) cache files were handy to have. Now all they do is create a potential directory problem and/or needless use of your hard drive which has to continually save/retrieve them. It's not uncommon to find single pages that require saving/retrieval of 50 to 100 of these little files.
I believe another post has correctly indicated that the I.E. browser cache is IE Cache.waf in /Users/Home/Library/Caches/MS Internet Cache. If you have two other files in there, both the same size as IE Cache.waf, you've just found your Entourage X cache files. All three cache files in this folder will be the same size as your I.E. browser cache setting (under Advanced Settings) and if trashed all three will be recreated to a size of 30MB, the default setting for I.E.
Change the I.E. cache setting to something else and its cache file will immediately change, but the other two will not until both I.E. and Entourage X quit and relaunch. All three will then be the same 'size' again, the setting of the I.E. browser cache.
Presumably their 'size' is the amount they reserve on disk for cache, not a measure of their actual size in terms of content.
Why the browser cache setting ('Advanced' under prefs) should determine the size of the two files created by Entourage X I don't have a clue.
One interesting note is that none of these three cache files, including the browser cache for I.E., can be deleted if ANY Office X application is running. The I.E. cache file will be 'busy' even if it is not running and the only application that is running is Word X.
Why?
It's a Microsoft application.

What Are Caches On Mac

I wonder why all of us noticed this at the same time.