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vashpan / xcode-dev-cleaner

If you want to reclaim tens of gigabytes of your storage used for various Xcode caches - this tool is for you!
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Feature request: Delete EmbeddedAppDeltas content #16

Closed ffittschen closed 2 years ago

ffittschen commented 4 years ago

I recently discovered that there is a folder located a /private/var/folders/m2/.../C/com.apple.DeveloperTools/All/Xcode/EmbeddedAppDeltas which contains a lot of old builds (or deltas?) which don't seem to be cleaned by the OS in any way. For me they date back to the day I got my MacBook. It would be great if this folder could be listed in DevCleaner as well.

vashpan commented 3 years ago

I think that /private/var folders are temporary and cached, and should be cleaned up by OS. I usually don't want to interfere in that, because who knows how it's used.

I'll monitor that though because indeed I also have some old stuff there. Maybe OS is cleaning them only if needed? Who knows.