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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1203870" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>Be very careful with this sort of utility. I hear from at least a couple of folks every year who have either damaged their computer so that it won't run, or who have lost data that they really wanted to keep, as a result of using this kind of utility.</p><p></p><p>If your hard drive is filling up, a new external hard drive is very reasonably priced these days. It's smarter to add storage space than to go to any extremes deleting things on your old hard drive. Chances are that you will need the extra storage space fairly soon anyway.</p><p></p><p> </p><p>A cache is code that has been stored to make things run faster on your Mac. For instance, your Web browser caches parts of some Web sites that you visit often so that when you visit again, those Web sites will quickly pop up on your screen. When you visit that Web site, there is no need for our Mac to download the information again using the relatively slow speed of your Internet access; instead much of the site is available already and quickly accessed from your hard drive. See:</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache" target="_blank">Cache - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></p><p></p><p>The problem is that over time, some of your caches can become stale, overly large, irrelevant, or worst of all corrupted. So it isn't a bad idea to occasionally (maybe ever few months, or when your Mac or a certain program starts acting funny) clear your caches.</p><p></p><p></p><p>There is no need to apologize for not knowing what you don't know. We're here to answer your questions! At one time every single one of us knew nothing about computers, and asking questions is a big part of how we all learned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1203870, member: 190607"] Be very careful with this sort of utility. I hear from at least a couple of folks every year who have either damaged their computer so that it won't run, or who have lost data that they really wanted to keep, as a result of using this kind of utility. If your hard drive is filling up, a new external hard drive is very reasonably priced these days. It's smarter to add storage space than to go to any extremes deleting things on your old hard drive. Chances are that you will need the extra storage space fairly soon anyway. A cache is code that has been stored to make things run faster on your Mac. For instance, your Web browser caches parts of some Web sites that you visit often so that when you visit again, those Web sites will quickly pop up on your screen. When you visit that Web site, there is no need for our Mac to download the information again using the relatively slow speed of your Internet access; instead much of the site is available already and quickly accessed from your hard drive. See: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache]Cache - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] The problem is that over time, some of your caches can become stale, overly large, irrelevant, or worst of all corrupted. So it isn't a bad idea to occasionally (maybe ever few months, or when your Mac or a certain program starts acting funny) clear your caches. There is no need to apologize for not knowing what you don't know. We're here to answer your questions! At one time every single one of us knew nothing about computers, and asking questions is a big part of how we all learned. [/QUOTE]
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