Caches and logs are around 80% of the junk that is collected during the app’s performance. So what’s that?
Caches — temporary files containing information that may be requested with the greatest probability. Accessing data in the cache is faster than sampling initial data from the slower memory or remote source, but its volume is considerably limited as compared with the original data repository. Quite simply it is a clipboard for a specific application that works in a bit different manner, unfortunately, often do not cleared automatically.
Logs — files containing system information that appears in the progress of work, with all users’ activity that can be further used for analysis and/or assessment.
In fact, it is a kind of diary in which the application records all your actions, application state, application-related events, or errors.
Caches and logs should ideally be removed periodically by applications. But in reality, it does not happen, and over time these files accumulate and clog your disk space and this can slow down your system. To learn how you can improve a slow Mac read this article.
Fortunately, caches and log files are found mainly in several locations and it’s really easy to remove them.
- Firstly, let’s delete the main log files.
Here is the Log files folder:
~/Library/Logs
It all looks pretty scary, but you can delete everything without hesitation. Important files are re-created on the first run.
2. The cache files are stored in the following location:
~/Library/Caches
We can delete all files without hesitation as well.
3. Yet, one new directory with caches:
HD/Users/<current user>/Library/Saved Application State
These are the main storage locations.
In fact, there are more places where applications save logs and caches. To find all of them you have to spend some time, thus there is a point to use a specific app.
App Cleaner & Uninstaller is the fastest cache and logs cleaner. It can find all the temporary files stored in caches, logs, and other hidden folders.
This application was developed to uninstall applications together with all caches, logs, and other system files. But even if you do not want to delete the whole application, you can still remove unwanted caches and logs using it.
For this follow the following steps:
- Launch App Cleaner & Uninstaller
- Switch to the Expert mode
- Select the application caches and logs of which you want to delete
- Tick all its Caches and Logs
- Click to Remove them and confirm the removal
