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Free drive space by deleting miscellaneous excess files
Of potential concern with this hint is if one of the directories is older then the mtime chosen, the directory will be deleted along with the files. Some programs won't handle this cleanly & may end up causing headaches. There's probably a find flag that can avoid this problem, or perhaps cd into the directory in question using the script then perform the find on the local directory :
Free drive space by deleting miscellaneous excess files
To clean files, at least one should restrict find scope using -type f
Free drive space by deleting miscellaneous excess files
If you are using IP printing, then be careful that you do not delete /var/spool/cups/tmp using this hint. Files are created in this subdirectory while printing, but if it is not present, tmp is not created when needed (at least with 10.2.8). |
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