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

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  • burntfingers
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2011
    • 148
    #1

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

    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.
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    • Uranium-235
      Comrade Glimmer
      • Aug 2007
      • 5042
      • US
      #2
      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
      Cap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
      ^If you have datasheets not listed PM me

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        • burntfingers
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2011
          • 148
          #3
          Re: Can I simply delete the "private" folder from my Mac?

          Originally posted by Uranium-235
          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.

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            • shovenose
              Send Doge Memes
              • Aug 2010
              • 6575
              • USA
              #4
              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!

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