Large Temp File in hd:/private/var/.../Cleanup at Startup/ folder, bloating my backup

Everytime Retrospect runs my backup, this large file is there taking up space. Over time, a months worth of these would be 4GB in size. How can I stop these temp files? What are they from?
Thank you,
Booney
Above pic can also be seen at http://i53.tinypic.com/25hiy4l.jpg

Your welcome delbcj, sounds like a plan..
As an aside, I use CarbonCopyCloner for scripted incremental backups, and I found it speeded things up considerably if I excluded all cache folders on my system including Bridge's massive cache files and Safari's large cache.
In my case, both of those are modified every day and represent over 5Gs..
I use Cocktail's Finder mod of "show invisible files" to see- as Chris says- the normally invisible Photoshop scratch file.

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Hi,
I have Berkeley DB 5.2.28.
And I tried to use Berkeley DB on iOS 4.3.
I wrote;
printf (stderr, "db open - 1");
ret = dbenv.open(strDBdir,
DB_CREATE |
DB_INIT_LOCK |
DB_INIT_LOG |
DB_INIT_MPOOL |
DB_INIT_TXN |
DB_THREAD |
DB_RECOVER,
S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
printf (stderr, "db open - 2");
I runned this app on iPod 4 (iOS 4.3), and then in xCode's Organizer found a message: "sandbox[363] <Notice>: myapp(362) deny file-read-metadata /private/var/tmp", between "db open - 1" and "db open - 2".
How to resolve it?
Please, help me.
Thank you.

Hi,
I assume you have correctly followed and built BDB 5.2.28 for Apple iOS by following the guide for Building Berkeley DB for UNIX/POSIX and the notes specific to Apple iOS (iPhone OS).
The error message you reported:
sandbox[363] <Notice>: myapp(362) deny file-read-metadata /private/var/tmpis not an error from the BDB layer, but rather from the OS layer. It could point to insufficient privileges or rights (to write in that /private/var/tmp directory) or maybe a profile / access control list that is not configured correctly to allow the user you're running under to read metadata and data for a file; for example, make sure you have something like this in your sandbox profile:
(allow file-write* file-read-data file-read-metadata
(regex "^/path_to_BDB_environment__strDBdir")
(regex "^(/private)?/var/tmp/")
(regex "^(/private)?/tmp/"))If this does not help then I suggest you post on the Apple discussion forums.
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Large Temp Files in iTunes Directory

Hi, I'm noticing large temp files appearing in my iTunes directory. These are created almost every 1-2 minutes during iTunes play and they are 40,938k in size. Currently, I'm deleting them.
Has anyone seen this and does anyone know how to fix it? This is disturbing.
Thank you for any assistance.
1RG

Hi--
So what I've noticed is that ever 7 seconds or so, while iTunes is running, a new file is created in the directory and it's the same size as the E-N-T-I-R-E library. If you try to delete all the files while iTunes is running, it won't let you since it's using one or more of the files.
This isn't going to work much longer for me. I have a 40 gb hd on my Windows laptop and in the course of one day, my 96gb iTunes lib is creating enough files throughout the day to completely fill my hard drive which is only about half full.
Let's not even talk about how slow this is making the machine.
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Accidentally deleted /private/var/folders

Hi folks,
yesterday I did something really stupid, I deleted recursively /private/var/folders
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+ mounted external drive (Backup with SuperDuper! on it)
+ created a tar ball from <backup>/private/var/folders (as root)
+ extracted tar ball in /private/var/ (as root)
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Any chance that I lost some important data/metadata?
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Kind regards
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/private/var/audit using up a lot of disk

Hello,
Can anyone inform me as to the importance of the files in the /private/var/audit directory? On my system it is using ~20GB of space on my hard disk. Many of the files are appended with "not_terminated".
Can I safely delete these?
Thanks!

Carcarius wrote:
Hello,
Can anyone inform me as to the importance of the files in the /private/var/audit directory? On my system it is using ~20GB of space on my hard disk. Many of the files are appended with "not_terminated".
Can I safely delete these?
I think so. But they may come back.
Check the dates - see if they are current.
I have nothing in the var/audit directory.
Somehow you have turned on auditing or some program/app has done so.
Check the Activity Monitor and console logs for the reason for the auditing.
Also man audit and the related functions for more information.

Mysql-5.5.30-6 : temp files issue

since I upgraded mysql, I beginning to encounter suddenly this kind of error on any sql statement after some times :
mysql> show fields from jos_banner;
ERROR 1 (HY000): Can't create/write to file '/tmp/#sql_25e6_0.MYI' (Errcode: 2)
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I thought that would be the answer. This is my first
Java app. It uses Swing and I use NetBeans as my
IDE.
I knew it was getting too large, but I was trying to
avoid having to reimplement the whole thing. I have a
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So many Temp files in iTunes library

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Windows\temp files to delete

May I delete any old .tmp .ctm .rpt or .rptconMgrCache file from the windows\temp directory ??? Or do you know where there is documenation concerning this? My windows\temp file is growing out of control and the folder needs to be manually cleaned up. Thanks
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a typical solution would be to create a windows bat file to delete files in that directory and to schedule it with windows task manager to run after hours. Usually if a file is being used it shouldn't be deletable (locked by the OS). I don't see any reasons not to deete them.
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A large file called "sleepimage" under /private/var/vm/

I have a 2GB file called "sleepimage" under /private/var/vm/
does anyone know what it is?/ How to delete it?/Should I delete it?
Looking for a master/genius/Einstein to solve my question

As has already been said, it saves the entire contents of your RAM to the hard drive so that if the power goes out you don't lose your work. You can change your default sleep settings so that safe sleep is off using Terminal, but it's generally not a good idea. It will prevent that sleep image from being created so you can delete it and recover some space on your hard drive, but if your laptop loses power during sleep nothing will be saved and it will just shut off (like yanking the power cord out on a desktop).
If you're pretty confident you're never going to let your battery get to down to 0% and would rather have that extra space, open Terminal and type "sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0" (without the quotes) and hit enter. Then you can delete the file and empty the trash. If you want to change it back, it's the same command, but replace 0 with 3.

Private/var/log/asl files are huge: weird iTunes stuff

Hi all,
I am running ancient OS 10.5.8 on my ancient MacBook. I noticed some rather large log files in private/var/log/asl eating up HDD space, and wanted to delete them, but I scanned through them first to see if I could get an idea of what was going on.
It turns out I'm getting this same thing from iTunes over and over: it will always be just over 11316 lines long.
Example:
Sun Jul 24 15:36:06 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x22022\].org.mozilla.firefox[194] <Notice>: Debugger() was called!
Sun Jul 24 15:42:47 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x22022\].org.mozilla.firefox[194] <Notice>: Debugger() was called!
Sun Jul 24 15:43:04 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 11316
Sun Jul 24 15:43:04 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 1
Sun Jul 24 15:43:04 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 2
Sun Jul 24 15:43:04 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 3
Sun Jul 24 15:43:04 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 4
Sun Jul 24 15:43:04 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 5
<snip... it goes through every number>
Sun Jul 24 15:43:05 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 11313
Sun Jul 24 15:43:05 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 11314
Sun Jul 24 15:43:05 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 11315
Sun Jul 24 15:43:05 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x41041\].com.apple.iTunes[378] <Notice>: 11316
Sun Jul 24 15:54:43 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: IOHIDSystem::relativePointerEventGated: Capping VBL time to 20000000 (was 20164690)
Sun Jul 24 16:38:41 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: AirPort: Link Down on en1
Sun Jul 24 16:38:42 HBs-MacBook airportd[601] <Warning>: AirPort off, bailing - GetPower() = off (0)
Sun Jul 24 16:39:33 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: 11D beacon causing regdomain change to CC 840
Sun Jul 24 16:39:33 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: en1: 802.11d country code set to 'US'.
Sun Jul 24 16:39:33 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 149 153 157 161 165
Sun Jul 24 16:39:35 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: AirPort: Link Up on en1
Sun Jul 24 16:42:51 HBs-MacBook Alarm Clock[131] <Warning>: Shutting down Alarm Clock...
Sun Jul 24 16:42:51 HBs-MacBook Alarm Clock[131] <Warning>: Unregistering for system power notifications...
Sun Jul 24 16:42:51 HBs-MacBook Alarm Clock[131] <Warning>: Thank you. Come again.
Another example:
Mon Jul 25 15:45:14 HBs-MacBook /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd[48] <Error>: SFLSharePointsEntry::CreateDSRecord: dsCreateRecordAndOpen(Honey McBunny's Public Folder) returned -14135
Mon Jul 25 15:45:33 HBs-MacBook Finder[96] <Error>: CGImageCreate: invalid image size: 0 x 0.
Mon Jul 25 15:45:33 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0xc00c\].com.apple.finder[96] <Notice>: Mon Jul 25 14:45:33 HBs-MacBook.local Finder\[96\] <Error>: CGImageCreate: invalid image size: 0 x 0.
Mon Jul 25 15:46:26 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x13013\].com.apple.iTunes[110] <Notice>: 11316
Mon Jul 25 15:46:26 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x13013\].com.apple.iTunes[110] <Notice>: 1
Mon Jul 25 15:46:26 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x13013\].com.apple.iTunes[110] <Notice>: 2
Mon Jul 25 15:46:26 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x13013\].com.apple.iTunes[110] <Notice>: 3
<snip>
Mon Jul 25 15:46:27 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x13013\].com.apple.iTunes[110] <Notice>: 11314
Mon Jul 25 15:46:27 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x13013\].com.apple.iTunes[110] <Notice>: 11315
Mon Jul 25 15:46:27 HBs-MacBook \[0x0-0x13013\].com.apple.iTunes[110] <Notice>: 11316
Mon Jul 25 16:04:26 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: PM notification cancel (pid 110, iTunes)
Mon Jul 25 16:04:28 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: PM notification cancel (pid 110, iTunes)
Mon Jul 25 16:04:28 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: IOPMrootDomain: idle cancel
Mon Jul 25 16:28:32 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: PM notification cancel (pid 110, iTunes)
Mon Jul 25 16:28:32 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: PM notification cancel (pid 110, iTunes)
Mon Jul 25 16:28:32 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: IOPMrootDomain: idle cancel
Mon Jul 25 16:35:36 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: PM notification cancel (pid 110, iTunes)
Mon Jul 25 16:35:36 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: PM notification cancel (pid 110, iTunes)
Mon Jul 25 16:35:36 HBs-MacBook kernel[0] <Debug>: IOPMrootDomain: idle cancel
Mon Jul 25 16:40:33 HBs-MacBook loginwindow[31] <Notice>: DEAD_PROCESS: 0 console
This happened over and over again. Anyone have any idea what is going on here? iTunes is 10.6 if that matters.

I think the following will do the trick for you (from http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10329979-263.html?tag=mfiredir):
Fix: Restart log managers after removing asl data
Open the Terminal application and enter the following two commands to stop the log managers:
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.syslogd
sudo launchctl stop com.apple.aslmanager
Then create a folder on your desktop called "temp" (to store the moved "data store" files), and enter the following command in the Terminal to move the "ASL" data to the new temporary folder:
sudo mv /var/log/asl/* ~/Desktop/temp/
Finally, restart the "syslogd" process with the following command (the aslmanager will be started when needed by syslogd, so it doesnt need to be manually restarted):
sudo launchctl start com.apple.syslogd

Star Up Disk "full" problems...Which private/var files can I delete?

I have been having issues with my start up disk being full.
To the point where I could not copy to my clipboard as I had ZERO space left, programmes were shutting down etc.
I couldn't even delete the few pics I had as I couldn't open my Kodak software.
I have uploaded the photos now and deleted them, I have copied all the files I can to sticks, there is basically nothing I have added on the computer, yet I still have only under 700 MB of space on my HD.
I have downloaded and run Omni Disk...it is telling me I have 130GB of "private/var" files.
I know I cannot just go around deleting things, so need to know what I can and cant delete if possible?
I really need to sort this problem out!
I also need to know how to fix this problem from happening again - is this a log problem or what exactly?
Thanks for your help in advance!

Hi, Limeslice
just to make sure that there is not a dum mistake: did you empty the trash?.
Other:
Disk space consumers are typically large photo libraries, music and video files.
back them up, then delete them, and don't forget to empty the trash.
To find large directories :
open Terminal (under applications/utilities), then type "du -d 1 -h" (without quotation marks). this gives a list. for example, it says " 25G ./Pictures", it means that the Picture directory has 25 GB. you can then refine and ask for deeper levels, by typing "du -d 2 -h" or "du -d 3 -h".
Try to find out in this way. if this doesn't give you the correct hint, please, report back, there might be more complex problems.
Success, Thomas

Hello the private/var file on my 2008 iMac (OSX10.5.8) shows a whopping 65GB. Can that be normal? Can any of it be deleted?

Trying to clear up disk space on iMac and discovered the "private/var" file is 65GB! Can this be right? Any way to delete any of this safely? Does this store systems logs, virtual memory? I'm no expert. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
I used Disk Inventory X app to make this discovery.

Whatever you do stay out of system folders lest you completely corrupt OS X. There is nothing in those folders you need have anything to do with.
If you need to delete files to clear up space, stick to your Home folder (except the Library folder.)

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