{"id":1983,"date":"2012-04-25T11:51:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T02:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-04-25\/1983"},"modified":"2012-04-25T11:51:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T02:51:44","slug":"cleaning-out-idevice-cruft-from-my-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-04-25\/1983","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning Out iDevice Cruft From My Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1983'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Poking around my Mac laptop, <span class='nobr'>I came across<\/span><\/p>\n<div style='margin-left:2em'>\n<tt>~\/Library\/Logs\/CrashReporter\/MobileDevice\/<\/tt>\n<\/div>\n<p>and found thousands and thousands of logs and crash-reports for various iPhone\/iPad applications\nthat have been accumulating over the years. You'd think that iTunes would clean this stuff up after <span class='nobr'>a while.<\/span> <span class='nobr'>I deleted<\/span> it all.<\/p>\n\n<p>Elsewhere in <tt>~\/Library\/Logs\/<\/tt> <span class='nobr'>I found<\/span> random cruft, some dating back three generations of laptops, to 2003.<\/p>\n\n<p>I deleted it all. <span class='nobr'>It felt satisfying<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Can anyone recommend a &#8220;keep things tidy&#8221; app, along the lines of <i>Crap Cleaner<\/i>, which <span class='nobr'>I used<\/span> to use when <span class='nobr'>I had<\/span> <span class='nobr'>a Windows<\/span> box?<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poking around my Mac laptop, I came across<\/p> <p>and found thousands and thousands of logs and crash-reports for various iPhone\/iPad applications that have been accumulating over the years. You'd think that iTunes would clean this stuff up after a while. I deleted it all.<\/p> <p>Elsewhere in ~\/Library\/Logs\/ I found random cruft, some dating back three generations of laptops, to 2003.<\/p> <p>I deleted it all. It felt satisfying.<\/p> <p>Can anyone recommend a \"keep things tidy\" app, along the lines of Crap Cleaner, which I used to use when I had a Windows box?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}