• Re: Google Chrome takes 6 GB of my hard disk

    From Yogi Arif Widodo@21:1/5 to Your Name on Wed Mar 8 19:02:11 2023
    On Friday, October 23, 2020 at 3:51:48 AM UTC+8, Your Name wrote:
    On 2020-10-22 11:59:53 +0000, Piero Calavera said:

    Il giorno lunedì 11 novembre 2013 alle 00:08:16 UTC+1 Juan I. Cahis ha scritto:
    Dear friends:>> Cleaning my Mac, I discovered that Google Chrome
    Browser takes 6 GB of my> hard disk. Is this OK?>> I use it very
    seldom.>> --> Enviado desde mi iPad usando NewsTap, Juan I. Cahis,
    Santiago de Chile.

    It happen cause there are the old versions stored inside the chrome.app package.
    1. Go to chrome.app 's internal files (by selecting "show content of
    the package" over the package contextual's menu. Sorry i don't know the exactly english voice of the menu, mine is in italian)
    2. Go under 'Contents->Versions', now you can see a lot of the app versions.
    3. delete all the old versions ( major number is a recent version), you can mantain only the last one.
    now you're done.
    On my Mac, Chrome app itself is only 500MB. There is a "Versions" sub-folder, but it's further down than just "Contents->Versions". It
    only keeps the current and previous versions. There's no point in
    deleting them.

    CleanMyMac shows the *total* size taken up by each app *and* the
    various support files (not always all of them). On my Mac, that *total* comes to 22GB ... 90% of which is single file in the Application
    Support folder and is probably a cache file of some sort.
    i have same issue in my clean my mac , its show 9GB and supporting file is 6GB size . dunno how to clear ...

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  • From Jolly Roger@21:1/5 to Yogi Arif Widodo on Thu Mar 9 06:35:09 2023
    On 2023-03-09, Yogi Arif Widodo <yogirenbox33@gmail.com> wrote:

    i have same issue in my clean my mac , its show 9GB and supporting
    file is 6GB size . dunno how to clear ...

    Try using DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective instead.

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    JR

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