Deleting unwanted files

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  1. EliCsuf, Aug 16, 2012

    EliCsuf macrumors member

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    Hello,
    I just got my first new BTO MacBook Air. I want to take advantage of the 256GB. I've managed to get some GB's back by running Monolingual. In the "storage" info. it says I have 1.23GB of audio. I have not uploaded any audio content to iTunes. I think it may be all those jingles in iLife. I do not use Garageband or will be using my MBA to make any type of audio content. Did you delete all the .caf files (audio)? Any issues? Thanks.
     
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  2. jav6454, Aug 16, 2012

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    You can delete them, but you won't get them back until you reinstall iLife if you ever need them in the future.

    Also 256GB is quite a lot of space. Unless you have several movies in 1080p, you won't ever fill it up quickly.
     
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  3. MR.BUTTON, Aug 16, 2012

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    you can show all hidden files in finder by entering these codes in terminal:

    defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
    //press enter then
    killall Finder
    //notice:caps "F"

    you'd better keep some extra space at least 40%
    cuz flash storage gradually slows down as u fill them up

    edit:when you display all hidden files, there will be a file named "ds.store" on the desktop. to undo the action, just change the boolean type "TRUE" to "FALSE"
     
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  4. GGJstudios, Aug 16, 2012

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    Freeing up space in Mac OS X
     
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  5. EliCsuf, Aug 19, 2012

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    Thanks.

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    Awesome. Will give that a try.
     
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  6. EliCsuf, Aug 19, 2012

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  7. EliCsuf, Aug 20, 2012

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    I was able to recover four precious GBs. Thanks to all. Don't want to tamper with it anymore.
     
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