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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: 18 Jan 2015 01:21:13 GMT
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On 2015-01-17, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2015.01.17 10:06 , Jolly Roger wrote:
>> 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>
>
> I've been using Chrome since its inception and haven't had that issue.

Some people have had the problem. Others have, obviously.

> As noted the last time this _really_ old thread was resurrected ... see 
> post iceman was replying to....

Yet diceman's post isn't very old, is it?

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