Freeing up hard drive space

[storkie11]

I've had my 1st MBP for a few months now, have used it for a lot of home video, and would like to transfer this to an external hard drive, after which I might delete it from my MBP hard drive to free up more space. Does this sound like a reasonable way to keep open space on my MBP? Do I need to ever "defrag" this MBP like we've had to in the past for our old PC's? I'm still learning, but LOVE my MBP!!!! Thanks...

 

[GoCubsGo]

I would save the home videos on an external and probably back up that external.

I would also recommend running monolingual, READ the instructions first. Uninstall unnecessary language packs.

Finally, Macs do not need to be "defragged".

 

[arjen92]

HFS (the way your hard drive is partitioned, so it's not the windows NTFS) defrags automatically.