/slightlypanicedvoice Leave it alone! http://shellzero.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/importance-of-var-folder-in-macosx/
regards Russell ---------------------------------------------------------- Manor Park Medical Centre www.manorparksurgery.com Tel 01323482301 East Sussex Local Medical Committee (Chair) www.sslmcs.co.uk/ Tel 01372389270 GPC rep East & West Sussex @drbrown1970 ---------------------------------------------------------- On 21 January 2013 11:09, Michael Dennis - FanChants.com < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello chaps, > > I've just splashed out on a new MacBook Pro and I'm very happy with it > apart from the price and the fact I had to reduce the size of the hard > drive. I'm already up to the limited 250GB (I had 500 before but only used > 270 or so. > > I have put all music on iTunes Match - works well even in Thailand. My > pics are all going on Flickr or similar. I'm also clearing off all the crap > using Omni Sweeper to find the large files. The only thing I am not sure, > and which is taking 12.8 GB of space. Its in Private and the largest folder > inside that is called var. Within the folder var are lots of files but the > heaviest folder is called vm requiring most of the 12gb space. In this > folder there are 10 files. The heaviest being one called sleepimage at 8gb > then the rest are called swapfiles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 varying from 1gb > down to 64mb. > > Are these important? Seems rather odd and I haven't seen anything like > this before on the HD? > > Thanks for any help. > > BTW I love the way the Mac feels, it's just gorgeous and is a lot quicker > than the equivalent machine of 2 years ago I had previously. The retina > display is awesome but is pricey and on reflection I may not have gone for > it but then again I do look at the screen a lot and also have particularly > bad eyesight so it was kind of worth it. > > Michael > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
