remove apple preinstalled apps, getting them back

Hey

Does anyone know if i remove any of the apple preinstalled apps like Keynote, Garageband etc will i be able to reinstall at a later date if i wanted to? I don't have any use for them at the moment so taking up unnecessary disk space, they show in app store under purchases so should imagine it would not be a problem to install from app store if i ever wanted to but want to just double check.

Thanks

maflynn said:

If they're on your purchase tab, you'll just need to re-download them.

Of course, I'll make the ubiquitous comment of backing up your system to ensure you don't lose your data - in this case your apps.

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Yeah they are there in purchase tab but just wanted to double check, regarding backup time machine backs up wirelessly to my SSD plugged in to my router

Been backing up since 08th December 2014 lol... I just love time machine

Thank you.

chrfr said:

You might get yourself an inexpensive spinning disk rather than an SSD for backup. The Apple routers are slow enough that there is no performance gain to be had using SSD on them.

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Hi i own an Asus RT-AC68U router not an apple router. Also i would have used an HDD but i bought the SSD about 7 months ago for my windows laptop which it was used in but i no longer have a windows laptop so it was left doing nothing, i could sell it and get a WD NAS, Synology NAS or something that be more suitable for me as could be used for both time machine and media, plus will save space on rMPR then too, i may sell my samsung ssd and what i get for the ssd could go towards a NAS

Dave Braine said:

Garageband: 185Mb
Keynote: 200Mb
Calendar: 47Mb
Contacts: 29Mb
DVD Player: 29Mb
Image Capture: 4MB
Pages: 220Mb
etc, etc.

As you can see, they take up very little disc space. If you are that short on space, then you need to clear out a lot more than just a few small applications.

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err garage band in applications was nearly 2GB and i not even ever opened it, keynote was few hundred MB if i remember rite.

I'm not low on disk space got plenty 400GB free just don't like having stuff on my system that i don't use. Also as my sig shows i got a rMBP (mid 2014).

Cheers.