Since the issue was first reported, Spotify issued a statement to 9to5Mac, and it’s good news. Not only does this use up space unnecessarily and potentially cause issues with machines running out of space, but writing so much extra data to a drive adds unnecessary wear and tear and shortens its lifespan. The issue is so significant, in fact, that the Spotify app can write as much as 5GB to 10GB of data an hour to a drive, and accumulate up to 700GB of junk when the app is left running for more than a day. This MacOS Trojan stealthily lifts your data, says Microsoft I review laptops for a living, and these are the settings I change on every deviceīeware - even Mac open-source apps can contain malware
