[bink]

I have Onyx and while I understand removing the browser and VM files every so often is OK, am wondering if it is also safe and OK to remove the local cache and system cache files. With the sys. files, clean or clear?

tia.....Rich

[chabig]

The best advice I can give on this topic is "if it's not broken, don't mess with it". In particular clearing VM files is definitely not OK. The contents of those files represent computer memory which you do not want to lose. Where did you get the idea that it was?

Cache files, on the other hand, exist to speed up system performance and they can usually be safely deleted because they'll just get rebuilt anyway. But consider my first rule...

Chris

[alphasubzero949]

Cache cleaning should ONLY be done if you suspect system slowdowns/problems that Disk Utility couldn't fix.

If cleaning the caches do not work, DiskWarrior would be the next step.

[Randman]

I'd recommend deactivating the Safari cache all together. By doing that and locking the flavicons cache folder, it has speeded up surfing and kept problems to a minimum. Also, I've never had a pop-up in Safari.

[alphasubzero949]

For the favicons, just download and use Safari Speed.