Clear out old windows bits

[Wheaty]

Hello

I moved to the Mac side back in 2009 from Ms XP
spotted a thumbs.db (index for viewing small thumbnails in windows folders) in one of my image folders, obviously a few years old...I just copied my old hard drive on to my mini, and deleted the bits I didn't need. seemed a good idea at the time...

So a quick search later, I found 50Megs worth of the pesky things... Ok its not a huge space saving, but what else may I have lurking?

before I get search happy, is there a quicker way?

Automator script?
freebie program?
anything else?

Cheers for any suggestions

Wheaty

 

[Tumbleweed666]

Leave it alone unless you are positive its not needed, 50Mb is trivial and an obsessive search and destroy will eventually lead to you deleting a 1Kb file that then trashes your Mac

It goes without saying, so I'll say it, anything you do put in the trash, leave there for a week or two before removing permanently.

 

[Wheaty]

I had thought about that, but It really buggs me when I scroll through a folder to get some daft bit of windows sat there.
As all the Mac stuff is in the right places the rest should be my creations/ downloads etc..

I've got them all in the trash anyway, just in case. Good tip.. I do it with everything.

Wheaty

 

[Tumbleweed666]

I had thought about that, but It really buggs me when I scroll through a folder to get some daft bit of windows sat there.

I know what you mean I'm sure I've got a fair bit of XP crud lying around from 2 years ago when I moved and some of that dating from prior XP systems, might be 10 years old