[Kelly Gerling]

I have a MacBook Pro, 2008, 250 GB hard drive. I’m running Yosemite 10.10.2 My hard drive filled up. I deleted 50 GB of movies and other large files. It filled up again. After looking around I got a $10 program called Yosemite Cache Cleaner (https://www.northernsoftworks.com/yosemitecachecleaner.html).

I ran it to do a “deep cleanse” of caches and logs. I said “yes” to all the prompts to delete these cache and log files.

That freed up 175 GB of disk space. I expect that the program will keep doing it when needed, and so far there are no bad side effects. That means—problem solved.

My question is, how can THAT MUCH space be taken up with caches and logs? And taken up so fast.

I run both Safari and Chrome browsers.

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