Great Spaces to Save Space?

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swwack91

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• Mar 4, 2008

• #1

Making an effort to save as much space as possible on my Mac, does anyone have any suggestions for good places to look for wasted space?

I recently found that you can delete installer packages from old iPod Software Updates.

I also use programs like XSlimmer and Monolingual to trim down applications.

Anyone else have any suggestions?

 

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swwack91

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• Mar 4, 2008

• #2

for example...

there's a folder that's over 1GB in my

/Library/Printers folder. It's for EPSON and I don't even own an EPSON printer.

Can that be deleted safely?

 

brand

Suspended

• Mar 5, 2008

• #3

Monolingual

 

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swwack91

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• Mar 5, 2008

• #4

yeah, monolingual is a great program.

anyone know about those printer folders? can they be deleted? why have all those drivers if i only use one printer!?

wouldn't the new printer just come with its own drivers so you can install them then?

 

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slicedbread

macrumors 6502

• Mar 5, 2008

• #5

http://www.xslimmer.com/

this program removes the powerpc code from apps, saving you space. not tried it myself but I hear it works fairly well.

 

brand

Suspended

• Mar 5, 2008

• #6

brand said:

Monolingual

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Opps, I didn't see that you already referenced Monolingual.

 

richard.mac

macrumors 603

• Mar 5, 2008

• #7

swwack91 said:

for example...

there's a folder that's over 1GB in my

/Library/Printers folder. It's for EPSON and I don't even own an EPSON printer.

Can that be deleted safely?

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delete all the folders that arent your printer make. say if you get an EPSON printer down the road you can always reinstall them.

 

TravisReynolds

macrumors regular

• Mar 5, 2008

• #8

Also go through your Photo's and itunes and delete the ones that you don't need. Depending how big it is you can get a good chunk of space back