Deleting Receipts?

[iTim314]

I'm going though everything on my HD to try to delete some unwanted stuff and save some space...

I came accross a folder named Receipts in /library. The folder was about 192MB in size. Inside were about 170 .pkg files, many of which were only about 80KB in size.

Are any of these safe to delete? I thought they looked like where Mac OS X saves anything installed, like a back up.

 

[iHerzeleid]

I think it's also for the purpose of knowing what software is installed in case of upgrading.

 

[iTim314]

I think it's also for the purpose of knowing what software is installed in case of upgrading.

So I should only keep the ones related to software I still have?

 

[iHerzeleid]

Take a look at this thread.

Don't Delete Your Receipts!

 

[iTim314]

Yikes....

Well put. Thanks!

 

[kwood]

Take a look at this thread.

Don't Delete Your Receipts!

Here is why its a bad idea

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751

The Disk Utility uses it to verify the correct permissions.

 

[MrElvey]

Archives of those dead links: None that I can find for 25751 (at archive.is or archive.org) ... or for the macworld one. But lots of similar threads at discussions.apple.com.