abadidea on Nostr: today I discovered that ~/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/(a ...
today I discovered that ~/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/(a guid)/MMCS/ClonedFiles contained dozens of temporary copies of massive 800MB image files I'd been working with several months ago, which apparently never got cleaned up by Pixelmator. And that's the story of how I found a hundred gigabytes under the couch cushions
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