Make sure Mail is off and then delete that folder to remove the plug-in.īy the way, James also has a nice article outlining the Mail plug-in API on his blog.
It's in a folder called PersonalAntispamForMail.mailbundle in the ~/Library/Mail/Bundles/ folder.
Today, I was installing the Attachment scanner plugin for Mail - a free plug-in by James Eagen that warns you if you mention that you've attached something in the body of your email message and forget to add an attachment - when it led me to where Intego Personal Antispam had left its orphaned plug-in. This is why I find AppZapper invaluable (it uninstalls an application and any dependencies it may have created.) Applications that don't fully uninstall themselves really annoy me. Unfortunately, it didn't uninstall everything and left the Mail plugin behind. I've still got VirusBarrier installed for the time being (until I get round to trying ClamXav) but I uninstalled Antispam using its own uninstaller.
(On my Windows installation under Parallels, I use Trend Micro PC-Cillin and it works like a charm.) While downloading it, I thought I'd give Intego Personal Antispam X4 a shot too but ended up not liking either one.
So, after switching to a Mac, I went on the hunt for an anti-virus app for OS X and decided to test Intego VirusBarrier X4. Maybe someone can suggest a better way of tracing where these files are being written stored using snapshotting or something.Coming from 22 years of Windows, I don't feel safe without a Virus scanner.
What if i use the HBO app and download multiple GB of HD video for offline watching? How do i reclaim this space in a pinch? Do i have to do it within the app? What if i have deleted the app and can't re-download it? But it does kind of concern me that iOS apps will eat up disk space that the user has little control over. Now, maybe this is marked as purgeable space and with more time or a restart this space will eventually be purged by the filesystem. Therefore they must be stored in a cache in some mystery location, and not deleted if you send the app to the trash (or at least not immediately). This morning i re-downloaded it from the App Store, launched it, and all the previously downloaded podcasts were still there in the library, that is they didn't need to be downloaded again.
The disk space did not seem to change by very much (hard to tell with APFS, as it jumps around a lot due to periodic purging of reclaimed space). Last night I sent the Overcast app binary to the trash, and emptied it. In case anyone is interested I did some minor testing. If not, this is a pretty terrible oversight, given how a user could fill up their disk quite easily with some iOS apps and how obscure this location is. I'll be keeping an eye on the Containers folder to see if the huge Overcast folder eventually gets purged. Reveal in Finder sends me to various differently named locations within the Containers/Overcast folder.Īnyway, i've deleted the Overcast app again. It does find a bunch of files with 'overcast' in the name in folders within Containers seemingly with UUID names but these don't match with those in the Finder. EasyFind (my go-to app for digging into the system folders), does not see the ~/Library/Containers/Overcast folder at all. There seems to be some weirdness going on with the file system naming (or possible text encoding of names?). There are also a bunch of folders in Containers with different UUIDs, but no clue which are linked to which iOS apps, if any. Actually there is a ~/Library/Containers/Overcast folder that is 4GB, and Data/Documents within that is where the audio files are (m4a, some are playable, some not, no idea why.). Yes, the files seem to be in the ~/Library/Containers/folder.