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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Google Chrome takes 6 GB of my hard disk
Date: 17 Jan 2015 15:06:16 GMT
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On 2015-01-17, diceman <james.roberton@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I just removed Google Chrome from my applications as it will soon stop
> receiving updates due to the hardware no longer being unsupported
> (I've an old 32 bit iMac).  (I've switched to Firefox now, and this
> works well, even allowing me to continue to use a webclipper for
> Evernote.)
>
> When removing the app I quickly noted it was occupying 30 'whatever'
> bytes of disc space (I think I assumed it was Mb, right?).  Then when
> I right-clicked to empty my trash, it loaded up a long progress bar
> and very slowly ground it up.  I then knew I had made a request to
> delete a vast file, something I hadn't expected (it was the only item
> in the trash).  I checked my disc space and was amazed to have freed
> up 30Gb!!  Astonishing!  How has this happened?  I used to regularly
> clear the browsing history and cache (so far as I know, unless there
> is some hidden stuff I don't know about).  I think it was installed in
> 2010, and I clipped a lot of text content to Evernote, but the
> Evernote app only shows 200Mb usage and all content is still present
> after deleting Chrome.

Google Chrome keeps older versions of the application indefinitely. So
the longer you have had it installed, and the more updates that have
been applied to it, the more space it will consume:

<http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120426095831578>

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JR