System Data Fills up

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I found my System Data filled up when using Cursor on my Mac.

Sam at the Cursor help desk promptly replied and gave me this suggestions

You can clear Cursor’s app data and prevent storage buildup by running these commands in Terminal:

sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cursor

rm -f ~/.cursor.json

This will clear Cursor’s cached data and free up your system storage. After running these commands, you can restart Cursor and it should work without filling up your storage.

and when that did not work

Hi Michael,

Try these additional steps to clear the system data:

  1. Completely quit Cursor

  2. Also remove this folder:

rm -rf ~/.cursor/
  1. Restart your Mac

But it is still has 81GB of data in it. I took it into the Apple shop to see if they could help - they suggested I can only erase all contents and reset.

Before I did that I wonder if anyone else has experienced this and has a solution. Thanks.

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@Discbot - could you help - any solutions on the site

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yes, i have the same issue on Mac Air with M1. and have to run First Aid for my disk every time after I use Cursor for a while. it’s so annoying.
any other solutions to that?