Watch your JungleDisk cache Dec30 '07

I have an 80 GB MacBook, and I use online storage for practically everything. So you can bet I was more than slightly curious when I noticed my total remaining disk space was only 8 GB, and that I was somehow using 72 GB.

I understand the operating system takes about 10 GB, and applications about 8 GB. Still, that left roughly 50-60 GB unaccounted for.

After running a utility that checks your hard drive for large files or folders, I noticed the culprit was JungleDisk cache, located in Username > Library > Caches > jungledisk.

I didn't have a max cache size set, so it was caching everything I had on JungleDisk (over 30 GB)! I've since went into JungleDisk and set a max cache of 5 GB. Immediately my hard drive space started increasing.

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Categories: JungleDisk , Storage , Tips

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