Getting rid of unused space?

Do a google search for "whatsize"

that's a nice free program to list everything on your computer for easy viewing.

I kept my languages, and my print drivers, but you can trash those if you want.

There is a program that can trim your languages, I forget what it's called, someone else will chime in and suggest it.

I would trash your garageband loops, and various iLife demo files, and tutorials. Unless you plan on using garageband a lot. But that's a great way to get more HD space...

 

[chime]De-Localizer[/chime]

 

there is a programed called monolanguage it scans your whole computer and you can pick and choose on what you wanna keep. get it from versiontracker.com

 

I googled for "monolanguage" but didn't get anything, but I did google for monolingual and got a hit. I've used it before and its a great program.

 

I did some cleaning days ago. these are the softwares that are HUGE and sometime useless.

1. iWorks, this stuff will expire in 30 days, after which you will not be able to save the work you made with it, if you are not going to use it, then delete it, size: 1.9GB
2. GarageBand, well, unless you use it, then you need to get rid of it, size: 2GB, note, the application file is around 100MB, but real library file is HUGE, be sure to use spotlight to search for any file related to it and delete them
3. iDVD, as described, this stuff is about 1GB in size, mostly themes, delete it if you don't use it
4. MS Office trial version, about 350MB. even if you buy a retail version, you still need to delete this one before the installation of new one, so just do it now.

 

yes, for iworks, mostly.

 

Do you guys recommend doing a clean install of OS X or just deleting all the files?

 

Just delete.

 

A clean install is always nice, then you know what you have on your mac.
By the way, Macaroni is a great little program that maintains your mac by by performing system maintenance routines, and it can also remove language files.

 

sorry for the late reply but the monolingual is the right one i knew it was something similer

 

I reckon if you buy a new computer, re-instal the OS and cut out packaged files that you won't be using. I had to re-format my MacBook's HDD, and i managed to free up ~10GB of stuff which to me is useless (ie iDVD when i don't use it much and i don't have a DVD burner).

I doubt too many of us are going to be reading stuff on our Macs in the dozens of languages they have, or print through the many printers they include drivers for.

 

I might be missing the point here but is gaining a few extra GB that much really? Mostly if you got a BigMac. I mean mostly if your going to be using it for a pro editing machine, get read for 15GB/hour files. If still not, then from a 250GB Hard Drive, extra 5GB is nothing

I dunno, I guess im running over 1 Teraflop and just going through a system and taking it apart for an extra 5GB seems kinda pointless, mostly on a machine with a 250GB standard drive that is unless you downgraded to a 160GB HD.

 

It's more important to the notebook users that have the 60GB standard HDs

 

oh I agree but still then, that extra 5GB will soon be eaten anyways cause 5GB is nothing in todays standard. But the Topic Poster did say he has a MacPro...

 

So just to make sure, if I delete garage band and other apps I dont need now, can i add them back using the restore discs? In order to do this, would that mean a complete reinstall?

thanks

 

you can, just pop in the disk, and install bundled softwares