

A large portion of the Other data stored on the device may just be Spotlight indexing not giving a toot about how much disk space it consumes. This may also apply to iOS devices, since OS X & iOS are currently being developed to match each other's functionality and features.
#XTRAFINDER CONX DOWNLOAD#
Drag and drop the file (s) from Mac Downloads folder to the download folder of PC. Select the Disk Drive and folder where you want to move the file.
#XTRAFINDER CONX PC#
In XtraFinder select View >Toggle Dual Mode and in other pane open your shared PC connection. Additionally, the remaining disk space displayed in Finder now provides accurate results. Set up an SMB server connection on Mac and PC. Upon turning this off, I have not seen any issues. Turn off any others you may not want, as well, but Folder indexing seems to be the biggest culprit in both disk space loss and performance slowdown on older MacBook models. I recently noticed the problem happening again, and even though I had done everything I could to prevent it from continuing to happen, I was forced to watch my Mac slowly consume more than 100 gigabytes of space to some phantom process occurring in the background.Įven so, be sure to go into Settings -> Spotlight & uncheck the box for Folders indexing, and if you're like me and have a lot of music (such as over 50 gigabytes), turn off Music indexing, too. UPDATE: Another reason for this behavior can be due to Spotlight indexing, especially on older models of MacBook / MacBook Pro. According to the thread, /var/folders is the new location of caches, which you can safely delete if you've closed all running apps. Here's a thread from the Apple website about this it agrees that deleting tr should be safe. I might issue a new post later on when I know more about this to understand what Apple did with El Capitan to make it act this way. Help with XtraFinder on M1 Studio (12.6) Recently, I got an M1 Mac Studio and upgraded from Mojave on my main its a lot to get used to The threads in this sub have been enlightening (and distressing, but thats another story.) Im working my way through my usual tricks, but cant seem to get XtraFinder to work. Some errors were issued by the command, but no errors came from the system as a whole. Was able to work and no crashes came of it. The command sudo rm -r -P /private/var/folders/tr/* The answer is that yes, you are allowed to delete files from /private/var/folders/.
