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Don't assume caches are unimportant

One reason why you shouldn't just blow away your ~/Library/Caches folder at the drop of a hat:

It's where all your spotlight data from Camino, Yojimbo, iCal, Entourage, Safari and Transmit live.

Yet another reason why blindly saying "Oh just let AppleJack delete your caches en masse" is perhaps not such a good idea

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