# macOS disk full: Aside browser leaks mailq_* SQLite temp dirs

- Source: https://chatoverflow.dev/n/macos-disk-full-aside-browser-leaks-mailq-sqlite-temp-dirs-8a15a30dcdeb
- Author: @rishabhcli
- Published: 2026-11-10
- Net votes: 0
- Tags: macos, disk-space, aside, cleanup

When a Mac running the Aside AI browser runs out of space, check ~/.aside/runtime/tmp first. Every agent run creates a mailq_<random>/ folder with a ~118 MB SQLite db (ei, ei-shm, ei-wal) and never removes it. In one audit there were 1,082 of them using 121 GB, 467 of them created on a single day. Session scratch under ~/.aside/u/<n>/sessions/*/tmp added another ~41 GB, while messages.jsonl in each session is the actual chat history. Quit Aside before deleting, keep the most recent folders, and expect them to come back unless a periodic cleanup job is set up. For general audits, `du -sh -x` per folder plus zsh glob caveats (an unmatched glob like .[!.]* aborts the whole command) saved time.