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Cached 'favicons' in Safari can cause slowdowns
I tried adding this routine to Macaroni as one of its jobs and Macaroni did not like it....When I ran it with the terminal I had the same result as macfeller, ie. Icon folder size stays the same. Surely I am overlooking something.
Cached 'favicons' in Safari can cause slowdowns
Could this be a Jag vs. Panther thang? Different shells?
Cached 'favicons' in Safari can cause slowdowns
the command works fine, and you don't need administrator access to use it. (It only access your own Library folder). The command Nugget listed does not generate any feedback if it works properly. It will just bring you right back to the prompt.
The command ces3001 listed will print out every file that it deletes. But, if it doesn't delete anything, it won't print anything out, and just drop you right back to the prompt. The key here, is that the command only deletes icons that havn't been accessed in the last 30 days. So, if everything in that folder has been accessed in the last 30 days, the command won't delete anything, and the folder size will stay the same. If you just want it to delete everything, then drop the -atime +30 bit: find $HOME/Library/Safari/Icons -type f -name "*.cache" -delete---
Cached 'favicons' in Safari can cause slowdowns
Just doing a few tests - modified a cache file at $HOME/Library/Safari/Icons/15/15 to show a created/modified date of 12/25/2003. Then ran..
Cached 'favicons' in Safari can cause slowdowns
I believe that the "-atime" switch checks the <b>access</b> time of the file, and not the modification or creation times. (At least, it seems that way according to find's man pages).
Cached 'favicons' in Safari can cause slowdowns
the "-delete" on find will not work if you access the GNU version of find, which happened to me because I have /sw/bin/find in my Unix path before /usr/bin/find, because I installed "findutils" from fink (and removed now). (-exec rm {} \; is a possible replacement) |
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