[doublepost=1532441461][/doublepost]I’m having this problem also on a Mac Pro 10.13.6. Finally found the files, deleted them, and all is good. Thank you for this informational site.
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I moved those folders (other than zz) and it solved my problem. Unfortunately I failed to empty my Trash until after rebooting. That left some of those items that were dragged to Trash being used by some processes, so they can't be removed from Trash.
I wonder if you are able to restore those files from the Trash and then delete again, and this time empty the Trash before your reboot. At any rate, sounds like your apps are up and running again, so that's good news.
Hi, I wanted to chime in with my experience. Suddenly got this error, was freaking out because I could open /var/folders but could not delete any of the non-“zz” folders as the OS wouldn’t let me. What I did was, open the non-“zz” folders, look for the folders named O T or C. I deleted anything I could delete from those folders, anything the OS would let me delete, and now things seem to be okay (after a reboot).
You figured it out - you have to clear the folders of content rather than delete them. Anyhow, glad it worked!
[doublepost=1560681396][/doublepost]Thank you millions, this worked June 2019 and still happening whatever it was or isI literally just made an account on this forum to thank you because it worked!!! I have a late 2011 MacBook pro, last week updated to High Sierra and this morning I woke up to all my app icons replaced with question marks, and pretty much all files either “damaged or incomplete”.
Clearing those cache files worked perfectly! Thank you
I installed the macOS 10.14.6 update this morning and ran into this same problem. This solution worked for me too. I have to admit I was skeptical, but I deleted one folder from /var/folders (not zz) and now my Mac is back to normal. Amazing.
I am experiencing the same problem when trying to open Excel. I have 2x deleted everything in the O/C/T folders by moving them into trash. Then I cleared my trash. When clearing trash I get notifications that many items cannot be deleted. Then, after re-starting, most files have returned to the O/C/T folders. Sort of frustrating and very creepy! Any ideas?
You could always try deleting with
sudo rm <pathToFile>
You can drag the file into Terminal to fill in the path