Mirror file??

hi
I'm having a tidy up og my hard drive, and I just found a huge (10g) file in my user/library/mirrors
that appears as my user name and a .dmg tag
Any ideas on what this might be, when i try and open it Omnioutliner opens but no info given
regards
Steve

Hi,
I have copied an answer from another thread, but it doesn't really totally answer our question. I too am running low on drive space on my G4, but from the paste below, it looks as if this mirror dmg will continually get recreated if I keep syncing on (a necessity for me). Does anyone know definitively if we can get rid of this file yet keep syncing? I'd love to have my 10 GB back since I only have 75 GB on that computer.
Amy J
Paste:
(from thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7354337&#7354337)
From Limnos: Re: 'mirrors'
Posted: Jun 10, 2008 1:46 PM in response to: BurntMonkey
<snip>
This web site (http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-system-mac-software/297290-problem-users-libra ry-mirrors.html) has some discussions which may help in understanding what the file does. Basically it is a local copy of your iDisk contents so you can get to it when not connected to the Internet. I am guessing you could delete it but it might be re-created unless you configure .Mac not to do so.
Message was edited <and written by>by: Limnos
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