Safe to delete /private/var/tmp/*?

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  •  29-05-2021
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Question

In this folder, there are 14GB of archives with names such as WiFiDiagnostics follow by a date. Is it safe to delete these archives? A reboot did not remove them.

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Solution

WiFiDiagnostics* sounds like something you can delete without impact. There are other things in /private/var/tmp which probably shouldn't get deleted (e.g. filesystemui.socket) so rm * is not advisable.

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