Dealing with empty folders on my MacBook Pro

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Dealing with empty folders on my MacBook Pro

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  • Victoria Herring
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      I have a MBP and am just doing some basic cleanup [like finding old unused apps and trashing those, and old other such] Using TidyUp, an app I’ve used for years, I decided to check my MacBook Pro for empty folders. It came back with 27,000 — quite a few are burrowed deep in the User Library with name starting with “__MACOSX” , Logs, Saved Application State, System Data, WebKit and Containers.

      Since they’re empty no real need, maybe, to delete some/all but I just wondered if anyone knows why so many or what use they are? Or anything else??

      [I can search within the result for certain locations, such as in Downloads or Documents folder, and figure I can trash those but don’t know why so many seem to exist inside the /Library.

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