Relocated Items

[Phil Ward]

Morning all,

Trying to empty the trash on my Mac Mini and there’s a folder called Relocated Items that apparently can’t be deleted ‘cause it contain files required by the OS. Really? If so, what are they doing in the trash? And how did they get there (delivered David Byrne vocal style)?

Can I safely delete them? And if so, how?

And also, part of the deleting trash effort is to try and recover some hard disk space. Are there any reliable and recommendable utility apps out there that might help with identifying trash (duplicate files, old installation dish images and zips, that kind of thing)?

P

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[Sam - MacAmbulance]

Relocated items (in Users/Shared/Relocated items) is protected by the system and can’t be deleted unless if you reboot into Recovery Mode and disable SIP. I don’t know why it’s protected but I have 13 of them in my Shared folder.

You can remove the alias from your desktop though

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[Steve Clen-Murphy]

Hi Phil,

You could try Onyx for clearing space on your drive. Doesn’t Senuti look for duplicate music files as well?

All the best

Steve

On 24 Oct 2022, at 09:32, 'Phil Ward' via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

[Sam - MacAmbulance]

Two culprits for taking up unnecessary disk space are : 

• Mail’s Connection Logging - If you see “Connection Logging Enabled” at the top of Mail’s Message Viewer window (the standard viewing window), it’s collecting and storing logs of every server operation. If you have an IMAP account, especially Gmail, this will eventually lead to huge Mail logs. Go to the Window menu > Connectivity Doctor > untick “Log connection activity” > click ’Show Logs” > delete all the logs in that folder, unless if you need them but changes are you don’t.
• iOS device backups - now that we all back up to iCloud, there’s not much need to back iOS devices up locally anymore. I regularly find years-old backups of iOS devices in client computers. Go to your home folder > Library > Application Support > MobileSync > Backups > anything there can be safely deleted if you don’t need to keep backups of a device. If you need the backups, of course don’t delete them

Another way of seeing which folders are taking up space is to view your home folder as a list, then go to the View menu > Show View Options > tick the ‘calculate all sizes’ option. Windows doesn’t have this feature and it’s incredibly useful. Finder may take a while, especially on systems without a solid state drive, and you may have to keep ticking the box to calculate all sizes, clicking Use as Defaults helps with that though.

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On 24 Oct 2022, at 09:32, 'Phil Ward' via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

[nick_p...@mac.com]

That’s interesting. I’ve been merging the contents of an old iMac with my MBA and found several folders called Relocated Items. If I remember rightly I managed to delete them quite easily (having done a web search) and all still seems to be working OK.

Nick

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[Sam - MacAmbulance]

Ah good, Apple must’ve sorted that one then, I’ve just deleted them all from my Shared folder, thanks!

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