Thinnning down a hard drive

[hereagain]

Hello. I'm pretty new to mac, I just installed 10.3.9 on a lombard with a 4gb hdd. I did the easy install and there is about 1.5 gb space left. Is there anything I can delete from the system files to free up some space? Extra languages maybe? Thanks for any help.

[Plymouthbreezer]

Try DeLocalizer (it's freeware). Should shave off some used space due to the massive amounts of localization files Mac OS X installs.

[velocityg4]

I would definitely remove unnecessary languages and printer drivers. Though sometimes the System is a bit buggy after this. If you have not done too much yet I would say to reinstall and do a custom install.

If you feel really brave and are willing to risk it you could start going through your /System/Library/Extensions and start removing unnecessary extensions. Back up the extensions first and be prepared to use Terminal and Safe Mode to fix up something that you will likely bork:eek:. You would need to do this after updating to 10.3.9 as the extensions removed would just be replaced with updated ones.

[hereagain]

Thanks for the advice, I'll try delocalizer. How do I remove the languages? Just delete the folders? Not really sure which ones or where exactly to find them.

[Plymouthbreezer]

Thanks for the advice, I'll try delocalizer. How do I remove the languages? Just delete the folders? Not really sure which ones or where exactly to find them.
DeLocalizer will do that for you.

[hereagain]

Thanks everyone for your help. And thanks to Mike Bombich for delocalizer. I cleared 781mb. Might not sound like a lot but when you've only got 1.6gb free it is.