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  % du -hcs "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer/"
  5.1M /Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer/
  5.1M total

Is this only a thing in latest Sequoia? I've been clicking "remind me later" on the upgrade prompts for a couple weeks, since it seems like there's a story like this with every big release.

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I must have used the shuffle screensaver. Who knew a ‘harmless’ feature could quietly eat up ~50 GB of space and bandwidth?

I mean, how else did you expect it to play a random assortment of high quality videos as a screen saver? It's good these aren't bundled, and very few people have metered internet.

That folder is 5gb on my Air, at 300-400mb per video.

I have a category selected that says it's 22 possible videos, and out of those only 18 are currently cached on my machine. It looks like that directory is kept pruned at least occasionally.

Nonetheless, just an indication of the potential size on disk would keep users aware when they pick these screensavers. An explicit "Screensaver videos" category in the disk usage graph is also a good solution.

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