Using DaisyDisk, I see that Catalina creates almost 50GB worth of files in the cores directory. How can I purge them? I’m running out of disk space.
These are core dumps from program crashes. You can safely delete them. But the real issue is why you are getting them in the first place.
To delete you should be able to do so with “sudo rm -f /cores/*” from the command prompt.
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Thanks. I’m also curious why I have so many of these files. But I think it’s because of this new MacBook Air. It seemed to restart itself quite frequently - probably 1-2 times in a month and the prompt is always “you didn’t shutdown your computer properly”, as if.