Can I simply delete the "private" folder from my Mac?

[burntfingers]

This folder accumulated lots of .asl files, constantly reducing my hard disk space - not sure if it's because of my work with Photoshop.
Is it safe to simply delete the private folder, or is it better to only delete the files?
Currently I have 23.8 GB of var [don't know what that is] which includes those .asl files.

[Uranium-235]

Re: Can I simply delete the "private" folder from my Mac?

google is a wonderful thing, isn't it?

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/.../t-641936.html

[burntfingers]

Re: Can I simply delete the "private" folder from my Mac?

google is a wonderful thing, isn't it?

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/.../t-641936.html

Hey, that was a great link, THANKS A LOT.

Meanwhile, I already removed the log files, and went to software updates, which were some 280MB.
I installed them now.
Let us see if this problem has been resolved.

I have a friend who had lots of problems with a Mac and eventually used a hammer to destroy it and went to buy a Microsoft Windows one!

It is very frustrating that Apple has allowed its computers to reach the customers with horrendous problems of this nature, leading to BAD publicity, I think.

My son bought this one for me, and originally it was great for picture, but slowly but surely I found out it is not such a great computer, after all.
Or, maybe it is my inadequacy to use/understand them.

[shovenose]

Re: Can I simply delete the "private" folder from my Mac?

By the way, they finally released CCleaner for Mac... it's a free tool to clean up the crap (that's what the first c stands for) and you should run that occasionally.
Macs are nice but they're not the holy items that Apple fanboys claim they are
I'm typing this from a Mac. LOL!