Hi all
I’ve asked this before (email), but “for the record”
Would love to see, in a future version, a way to manipulate, from within the app, the spectrogram files that tend to accumulate inside the Library/Caches/Capo/Spectrogram folder. They can get to add Giagbytes of disk space, which could be precious in low drive space scenarios. The way I use Capo, I can safely remove them from time to time. Right now, I keep the folder window open in the Finder in order to remind myself to delete them manually. Maybe a “Delete all spectograms” command, or a “Deleted all after X months/weeks/days” will do just fine. I don’t mind it being very deep in the preferences, I know for some uses of the app the Spectrograms are useful and speed things up.
Thanks.
There’s a lot more than just cached Spectrograms in the Cache folder, but I can appreciate that you might want to keep those folders clean.
The thing is, macOS has marked everything under ~/Library/Caches
as “purgeable”. So while this data can consume a lot of space, the system is supposed to discard it when space is getting low. Technically speaking, applications shouldn’t burden users with the bookkeeping.
With that said, I’ll put some thought into an easy-to-use solution for managing this.
Thanks for the answer.
I am aware of the other files in Caches. But they don’t amount to much so I don’t bother with them. In my experience, in the past when I had low drive space and even some warnings, the files in spectrograms were there, and I deleted them individually to gain 3 or 4 gigs of space. Maybe this has been addressed better in latest OS updates. Thanks for the explanation.