Tagged Questions
4
votes
3answers
12k views
Can I delete private/var/vm? What can I delete from the private directory?
What is this folder? It's huge and I can use the extra room. I've read sleepimage isn't necessary—is this true? Should I just deal with it? Is the "private" folder emptied automatically, or would I ...
9
votes
3answers
5k views
What are the “sleepimage” and “swapfile” documents?
I was using Disk Inventory X and found a file called sleepimage in /private/var/vm/ It takes up 4 GB! I also found numerous other files in the same folder called swapfile0 swapfile1, etc. What are ...
