Dear friends,
Chrome is taking up too much storage on my mac hard disk (24 gb), is this normal?
How do I go about reducing the storage, i use the application everyday.
I removed all unnecessary extensions and now have only 3 extensions running. any recommendation is appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Dear friends,
Chrome is taking up too much storage on my mac hard disk (24 gb), is this normal?
How do I go about reducing the storage, i use the application everyday.
I removed all unnecessary extensions and now have only 3 extensions running. any recommendation is appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Dear friends,
Chrome is
On 2021 Dec 14, Seif Bassiouny wrote
(in article<d01c62aa-8ac8-411a...@googlegroups.com>):
Dear friends,
Chrome is taking up too much storage on my mac hard disk (24 gb), is this normal?no. Chrome on this Mac uses 742 MB. Version 96.something, last modified 3 Dec
2021. 24 GB is far too big.
How do I go about reducing the storage, i use the application everyday.Do you have Safari? if so, delete Chrome, download a new version direct from Google, drive on.
Personally I’d just delete Chrome. I have it around just because, and rarely use it. I mostly use Firefox. If I had a problem with Chrome it’d be
outtahere and FF or Safari or Brave or Vivaldi or any of a dozen others would
be running instead. (Not Edge. Never Edge. Microsoft would have to pay me before I’d use Edge, and they can’t afford what I’d charge.)
I removed all unnecessary extensions and now have only 3 extensions running.Odds are that the application package has a problem. Google’s QA has deteriorated recently, and wasn’t that great in the first place.
any recommendation is appreciated.
Thanks in advance
On 2021 Dec 14, Seif Bassiouny wrote
(in article<d01c62aa-8ac8-411a-ba57-2125328a942cn@googlegroups.com>):
Dear friends,
Chrome is taking up too much storage on my mac hard disk (24 gb), is this
normal?
no. Chrome on this Mac uses 742 MB. Version 96.something, last modified 3 Dec 2021. 24 GB is far too big.
On 12/14/21 7:22 AM, Seif Bassiouny wrote:
Dear friends,
Chrome is taking up too much storage on my mac hard disk (24 gb), is this normal?
How do I go about reducing the storage, i use the application everyday.
I removed all unnecessary extensions and now have only 3 extensions running. any recommendation is appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Have you checked to see how many versions the computer is holding? Right click on the Chrome application and select "Show Package Contents". The
check the Versions folder. You have a lot old versions still in the folder
On 2021-12-14 12:55:51 +0000, Wolffan said:
On 2021 Dec 14, Seif Bassiouny wrote
(in article<d01c62aa-8ac8-411a...@googlegroups.com>):
Dear friends,
Chrome is taking up too much storage on my mac hard disk (24 gb), is this >> normal?
no. Chrome on this Mac uses 742 MB. Version 96.something, last modified 3 DecAs YK said in another post, it's most likely that the main culprit is
2021. 24 GB is far too big.
the Versions folder within the app still retaining multiple old
unneeded versions of the app: <https://medium.com/@ezekeal/why-does-chrome-take-up-so-much-space-on-my-mac-4381d99c09d1>
One possibility why it isn't deleting those old versions is if the app
has been moved to a sub-folder rather than just in Applications. For
some people moving it confuses the app (typical Google bad programming)
and the old versions just keep piling up inside the app's structure.
It could also depend on where that number is being obtained.
The Finder's Get Info for the app itself should be around 742MB, but if you're using a storage analyser such as CleanMyMac's Uninstaller, then
it may be including the supporting files and folders within Library ...
and if you use Chrome a lot it can add quite a bit of local cache
files, etc. (I rarely use Chrome, but it has a further 91MB in
Application Support/Google and 27MB in Caches/Google.)
To ge rid of some of that excess external space-hogging, go into
Chrome's preferences and clear the caches and cookies in Privacy and security, and the three areas in Auto-fill ... NOTE: Clearing these
will erase some website settings (e.g. YouTube's auto-play setting) and
log you out of websites, so you'll have to log in again.
Another possibility may also be extra extensions (you have already
cleaned) and themes that have been added, but I'm not sure where the
themes are stored.
In message <spadtm$1ukr$1...@gioia.aioe.org> YK <youki...@yahoo.com> wrote:
On 12/14/21 7:22 AM, Seif Bassiouny wrote:
Dear friends,
Chrome is taking up too much storage on my mac hard disk (24 gb), is this normal?
How do I go about reducing the storage, i use the application everyday. >>
I removed all unnecessary extensions and now have only 3 extensions running. any recommendation is appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Have you checked to see how many versions the computer is holding? Right click on the Chrome application and select "Show Package Contents". The check the Versions folder. You have a lot old versions still in the folderIt's easier to just delete Chrome.
... and reinstall it if you must. A lot faster than digging around to
find out how it b0rked itself and trying to fix it.
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and the child.
In message <spadtm$1ukr$1...@gioia.aioe.org> YK <youki...@yahoo.com> wrote:
On 12/14/21 7:22 AM, Seif Bassiouny wrote:
Dear friends,
Chrome is taking up too much storage on my mac hard disk (24 gb), is this normal?
How do I go about reducing the storage, i use the application everyday.
I removed all unnecessary extensions and now have only 3 extensions running. any recommendation is appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Have you checked to see how many versions the computer is holding? Right click on the Chrome application and select "Show Package Contents". The check the Versions folder. You have a lot old versions still in the folderIt's easier to just delete Chrome.
... and reinstall it if you must. A lot faster than digging around to
find out how it b0rked itself and trying to fix it.
--
We understand the importance of having the bondage between the parent
and the child.
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