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System

System caches are created by OS X at a low level. When clearing system caches Cocktail will always clear caches in the following locations:

Always cleared caches

Cocktail is by default set to clear even more system caches. Which system caches Cocktail is to clear is configurable in the options. The possibility to return to the initial settings is provided by the defaults button. The different caches supported by Cocktail is:

Available option caches:

CUPS cache is files created by CUPS and contain the processed print information. CUPS is stopped while files are deleted and then restarted. Core files are files created when an application crashes and storing a copy of the application's state at the time it crashed. Kernel cache is cache used by the system to speed up loading of kernel extensions. Temporary files from user as well as system. Virtual memory swap files are used by the system to store often-used information from physical memory (RAM).

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