I recently ran out of disk space and discovered that my System Data was consuming 866 GB of storage. After investigating, I found multiple directories named "Dead" nested within my developer data, consuming nearly 600 GB of storage.
An example path is:
/Users//Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices//data/Library/Caches/com.apple.containermanagerd/Dead
These directories contained multiple directories titled "temp.".
Rebooting the computer did not empty these "Dead" directories; I had to manually delete them.
What is the expected lifespan of the temporary directories stored in the "Dead" directory?
trevor_holliday
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