Mac 911: Why is my Mac full of a million tiny files?<article>
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Last time, I talked about the “dark matter” of your iOS devices and OS X systems: stuff that seems to occupy space without offering up information about why. In this Mac 911, I’ll answer more questions about storage and backup.</p><h2>As many as grains of sand on the beach</h2>
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Doug Eldred writes in with a concern about a form of file bloat—but not about bloated sizes. Rather, the sheer number of items that seem to appear on his drive.</p>
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Whatever or wherever they are, they must not be terribly large, but my Mac used to have less than a million files (according to various tools, including SuperDuper!), and now it’s [
up] to 1.3 million. Trust me, I haven’t knowingly created 300K new file recently!</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2896306/mac-911-why-is-my-mac-full-of-a-million-tiny-files.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Mac 911: Why is my Mac full of a million tiny files?
