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The application deleted everything #48

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uhlhosting opened this issue Dec 9, 2021 · 2 comments
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The application deleted everything #48

uhlhosting opened this issue Dec 9, 2021 · 2 comments
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Current Behavior
Started it in latest Monterey beta and selected to clear the caches cause they were too high. After few seconds i noticed weird behaviours in finder my data was disapearing. Over 100 Gb was removed from what was shown to me as 5 gb cache. I am in reinstall process now. Hopefully my backups of beta release are intact and they can be restored with ease.

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  • OS version: [macOS monterey beta latest]
  • Clean-Me version [latest]

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ghost commented Dec 14, 2021

From README.md

Disclaimer

I wrote this app just for fast analysing purposes. the cleaning option was just a handy extra feature.

I do not recommend you to delete your cache files. Cache files are what makes your programs load faster and perform tasks faster. If you delete it, the program will not only start slower, but will regenerate the cache files again. This will not save you some precious space on your disk.
If you do have a problem and want to delete the cache of some specific programs, I suggest you to click on the folder icon and search for that program and delete it this way.

Large log files can be deleted after inspection. A large log file mostly indicates that a program (or your system) has some problems that need to be resolved.

What I do recommend are also the options that are checked when the app loads: emptying the trash, deleting Xcode derived data and mail attachments (once in a while).

Yeah, I think this is unrelated, I just want to quote:

I do not recommend you to delete your cache files.

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Deleting cache files to deleting over 100 gb of files and system files and apps and music and all its not cache. This is a thread and i was just trying to warn you and others to look into it or archive it!

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