![]() ![]() If you want to clear out the temporary folders and files, simply rebooting the Mac is often sufficient to do so. Just remember to never attempt to manually edit or modify files in the /private/var/folders/ directory, as it can cause problems with the Mac operating system. If you want to see exactly where the Mac temp directory is you can follow these instructions. More broadly, $TMPDIR is the primary Mac temporary directory at the system level and found somewhere in a maze of other gibberish folders found within /private/var/folders/. This will open the “” directory in a new Finder window on the Mac: You can open that directory in the Finder rather easily by issuing the following command: If you’re wondering where Quick Look cache files are stored, they are located in the following directory: Where Quick Look Cache is Located in Mac OS In case you were wondering, the qlmanage tool lets you use Quick Look from the command line and can do much more than just reset and disable Quick Look cache. You can disable Quick Look cache if you really want to with ‘qlmanage -r disablecache’ but that’s not recommended for most Mac users. Of course, using Quick Look again will start to generate a new cache. For example, I had a 78mb thumbnails.data cache file from Quick Look and using ‘qlmanage -r cache’ dumped that entire cache file to reset it at zero bytes. ![]() The size of the Quick Look cache will vary depending on a particular Mac, the files contained on the drive, individual Quick Look usage, and other specifics that will vary from user to user. ![]() The command when executed properly looks like the following, with a simple report:įittingly, the QuickLook thumbnail cache resets quickly.
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