ScreenFlow keeps every raw track inside the document until you delete it
A ScreenFlow document stores the raw screen, camera and audio tracks, and its scratch folder holds recordings in progress. How to find both on a Mac and clean up.
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Mac storage, explained.
What fills your disk, where it hides, and what is safe to remove. Every guide gives you a way to check it on your own Mac.
Camtasia's Temporary Recordings folder: what is in it and what is safe to delete
Camtasia for Mac writes .trec recordings to ~/Movies/Camtasia/Temporary Recordings. How to measure them, recover a lost take, and clear the rest safely.
REAPER's .reapeaks files: safe to delete, and easy to keep in one place
REAPER writes a .reapeaks waveform file next to every audio file it reads. How to total and delete them on a Mac, and the setting that keeps them in one folder.
IINA saves a thumbnail strip for every video you scrub, and keeps them
IINA stores seek-bar thumbnails in ~/Library/Caches/com.colliderli.iina/thumb_cache and does not prune it. How to measure and clear it on a Mac.
CleanShot X keeps a copy of every capture in its history folder
CleanShot X saves your capture history, recordings included, in ~/Library/Application Support/CleanShot/media. How to measure it and keep it in check on a Mac.
A stuck print job keeps its files on your Mac until you cancel it properly
macOS keeps print job data in /var/spool/cups until a job finishes or is cancelled. How to see stuck jobs, cancel them with their files, and restart printing.
Content Caching stores updates for other devices on your Mac's disk
With Content Caching on, a Mac keeps software updates and app downloads for other Apple devices on its network. How to check its size, cap it or clear it.
Time Machine .inProgress files: when to leave them and when to delete them
An interrupted Time Machine backup leaves a .inProgress item on the backup drive. Why it is usually reused, and the safe way to remove it when it is not.
com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error: why your drive will not mount, and the order to try fixes
The disenter error means macOS saw the drive but refused to mount it. Usually a stuck disk check is holding it. Here is how to tell, and what to try next.
MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation: what it actually wants
The MediaKit error appears when partitioning or erasing a drive that has plenty of free space. It is about layout, not free space. How to get past it.
Couldn't modify partition map because file system verification failed
Disk Utility will not resize or add a partition until the disk passes a check. How to make it pass, and what to do when it will not.
Erase process has failed. Couldn't open device: how to erase the drive anyway
Disk Utility cannot erase a drive while something holds it open, or while it is locked. Three causes, and the command that erases it when the window will not.