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Google Drive & OneDrive Local Cache Bloat: Eliminating Ghost Files on Mac

Third-party cloud sync clients leave massive temporary cache chunks in Application Support. How to safely identify and clean them.

Published: 2026-09-12 By XrayMac Engineering 100% Native Swift

Cloud storage sync clients like Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive use macOS FileProvider extensions. While helpful, their sync engines often fail to release local cached disk space after files are streamed or uploaded.

Hidden inside ~/Library/Application Support/Google/DriveFS and ~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.OneDrive-mac, you can often find 20GB to 40GB of stale sync chunks and unevicted video buffers that Finder's normal storage bar never explains.

XrayMac's dedicated Cloud Storage module inspects these directories, displays their actual physical footprint, and safely purges stale sync caches without disrupting ongoing file synchronization.

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