Hard Drive Mysteriously Filling Up?

over 8 years ago from Courtney ⭐️, Principal Product Designer at WillowTree

Joel L, over 8 years ago
I believe the DocumentRevisions data will get automatically cleaned up when disk space gets low enough. That is — you will get a space boost by deleting it, but the actual effect is mostly psychological, as that space is never really "permanently" lost in the first place :)
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- Gabe Sanchez, over 8 years ago
  Got rid of 200GB
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- Marc Hottinger, over 8 years ago
  Yeah, that's what I believed too. It actually doesn't work at all on my current setup. I had to delete the folder manually, because OS X kept on telling me that my computer is low on disk space. I suggest to delete this folder with a single line command (that requires root privileges) instead of using one of the many crapware claiming to recover disk space. They are almost always very bad pieces of software engineering.
  Here is how to delete that folder. Be careful. http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/20/clear-versions-history-auto-save-cache-data-in-mac-os-x/
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