Windows Live Sync on Mac OSx
My Mac Air hard disk was getting full so I loaded up Disk Inventory X to see what was taking so much space and was surprised to find over 20GB of files in a trash folder I wasn’t aware of.
I use Windows Live Sync for syncing files between my Mac Air and my PC, but apparently when you delete files from the shared folders, the Mac version of Live Sync moves them to its own trash folder instead of the system trash folder, and hundreds of files can pile up over time unless you remember to delete them periodically.
Michael Vogel solves this by linking the Live Sync trash folder to the system trash folder. Here’s how.
1. Use Finder or Terminal to delete the Live Sync trash folder.
Macintosh HD > Users > username > Library > Application Support > Windows Live Sync > trash
2. Use Terminal to add a symlink from Live Sync trash to the System Trash
ln -s ~/.Trash ~/Library/Application\ Support/Windows\ Live\ Sync/trash
