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This is a quick one for the great Google Tech Support Database:

In Mac OS X 10.5.X, there is a new place for caches/tmp files: /var/folders/ or /private/var/folders

If you're having potential cache-related issues in Mac OS X 10.5, you might want to keep that one in mind.

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Proceed with caution (which should go without saying). For grins, I ditched the entire /var/folders/ directory. When next I logged in, my .Mac sync appears to have failed, and Entourage refused to launch at all. I managed to get Twitterrific, Camino and Messenger 7 up before everything went zombie on me.

Weird.

Posted by: Brian Little | May 5, 2008 11:28 AM

Heh...

I didn't delete /var/folders/ just everything in it, so far, no problems.

Posted by: John C. Welch | May 5, 2008 11:59 AM

Yeah, does /var/folders even *GET* recreated? Funky stuff happens when you mess around with the contents of /var and I'm not sure the OS is smart enough to compensation for a missing cache directory.

Posted by: PigInZen | May 5, 2008 12:50 PM