Re: How to keep Xcode from putting 500MB in /var/folders?
Re: How to keep Xcode from putting 500MB in /var/folders?
- Subject: Re: How to keep Xcode from putting 500MB in /var/folders?
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:24:50 -0800
On Dec 10, 2009, at 4:02 PM, I wrote:
> Xcode 3.2 creates a large temporary file down inside /var/folders/..../-Tmp/ while it's running: I just checked, and it was using 500MB. This is a problem for me, as my boot partition keeps running low on disk space, though I have plenty of room on another partition.
I've got this problem again, and it's rather mysterious.
The file is at /var/folders/kb/kbbrChtOHdOvbbKUWKScvE+-Ios/-Tmp-/wd6atrb9 . Note that it's NOT in the -Cache- directory.
'lsof' confirms that Xcode has the file open.
According to the Finder and OmniDiskSweeper, it is 553MB in size. According to tools like 'ls' and 'file', it's empty; although "ls -ls" says it's occupying about a million 512k blocks:
1080232 -rw-r--r-- 1 snej staff 0B Dec 26 17:54 /private/var/folders/kb/kbbrChtOHdOvbbKUWKScvE+-Ios/-Tmp-/wd6atrb9
I don't know where the discrepancy is coming from — a resource fork? I can't find a shell command that will identify resource forks.
After I quit Xcode the file is not deleted, but its size drops to zero bytes.
—Jens _______________________________________________
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