Empass eating masses of SSD storage

[Rootbeer]

I was wondering why my Mac's boot drive was shrinking and found 8GB of what I assume to be Enpass temporary files.

The files are located in User/<name>/Library/Containers/Enpass/Data/Library/Caches/CloudKit/<folder name>/Assets

Enpass is writing at least one 2MB file every 10 minutes. There were files in there going back to November of last year and, as I say, as of today, this totalled 8GB of data.

Surely this is unnecessary? Or if these files are necessary, then clearly housekeeping is not being done properly. 

Any thoughts?

[Abhishek Dewan]

Hi @Rootbeer

Welcome to the Enpass Forums.

Kindly share the version of the Enpass app, and OS you are using and I will gladly get this investigated for you.

[Rootbeer]

Hi Abhishek

Mac Enpass 6.8.5 (1256)

macOS Ventura: 13.2.1

[Abhishek Dewan]

Hi @Rootbeer

Thank you for sharing the details.

I'm discussing this case with our dedicated team and will get back to you soon with an update. Your patience in the meantime is appreciated.

#SI-3289

[Rootbeer]

Great stuff, thanks.

Just as an afterthought, the reason I suspect, that the Asset file count had been building up since November is because that was when I upgraded from Monterey to Ventura.

[Abhishek Dewan]

Hi @Rootbeer

We have reproduced the bug on our end due to which this issue is occurring. Our dedicated team is now working on resolving it and soon a patch addressing this issue will be released. Thank you for your patience in the interim.

[Rootbeer]

That's great to hear, Abhishek. 

[Rootbeer]

FYI: Purchased a new Mac mini Pro last month and I'm already up to 1.4GB of those temporary files. 

Apple M2 Pro

Ventura 13.3.1 (a)

Empass 6.8.6 (1360)

 

[Abhishek Dewan]

Hi @Rootbeer

I can certainly understand your disappointment in this matter and apologize for any inconvenience caused. We are releasing a fix for this issue in our upcoming major update. We request you to kindly bear with us until then.

[Abhishek Dewan]

Hi @Rootbeer

The concern you reported has been addressed in our latest update. We kindly request you to update your Enpass app to the most recent version (6.9.0) and let us know about your experience with the fix. Your support and patience throughout the process have been genuinely appreciated as we worked diligently to release this patch.

[Fearchen]

On 2/22/2023 at 6:02 PM, Rootbeer said:

I was wondering why my Mac's boot drive was shrinking and found 8GB of what I assume to be Enpass temporary files.

The files are located in User/<name>/Library/Containers/Enpass/Data/Library/Caches/CloudKit/<folder name>/Assets

Enpass is writing at least one 2MB file every 10 minutes. There were files in there going back to November of last year and, as I say, as of today, this totalled 8GB of data.

Surely this is unnecessary? Or if these files are necessary, then clearly housekeeping is not being done properly. 

Any thoughts?

I have the same problem and i think i have found a workaround.

In my case, the issue was caused by the regular backups that Enpass creates automatically. If you go to the backup function in the Enpass settings, you can view “Previous Backups.” From there, you can delete old backups. Depending on the size of your Enpass database, the backups can also be quite large.

Suggestion for Enpass!
I would appreciate an option to set the maximum number of backups or define retention periods — for example, keeping the last 7 days as well as one backup per month, and automatically cleaning up everything older than that.

[Amandeep Kumar]

Thank you for sharing your findings and suggestion!

Our team has already fixed this issue in the latest version of Enpass. Please update your app to the most recent release and check if the problem persists.

If you still encounter this behavior after updating, please let us know.