Hello all...
So I've decided to come here before I completely decide to give up and buy a refurbished mac to replace mine.
I have a first generation Macbook Pro, ya know from the early 2006s.
About 8 months ago I boosted my memory, backed up my hard drive and installed Leopard. Ever since then it's all been downhill.
I am completely dead on space. I cannot figure out for the life of me what is taking up so much room (I have an 60 or 80 gig HD, i don't remember exactly which, not at my computer right now).
I've deleted almost all the smaller applications that I do not use (including almost all iLife applications) as well as their library files. I do have about 5 gb of music on there but that's less than half of what I used to have because I keep deleting things to free up more space. I used to only get notifications about space when I was using things like iTunes and it was trying to save library files, or installing things. But now I've been getting notifications when I have 3 programs open (itunes, Adium (chat client) and safari) saying I have no application memory and have to close out of something to keep running my programs.
I've been in my system profiler and utlities and what not and there are a lot of hefty things running but I cannot identify what's crucial and what's not.
THe second issue, my CD burner. I installed this external hard drive late last year and it did not work. I returned the product, and thought I deleted all of it's components. However I still find things like WDDriveManager or something still running on my computer. I think it's running into my burner working. I cannot burn from itunes or anywhere, I always get a notice saying the burner is in use by another application.
The reason why i associate the external drive with the cd drive is because I've read some forums about the WesternDigital External HardDrive conflicting with other things,
Well, if that wasn't long enough, what do you all think? I do not have my AppleCare anymore so I can't just go in and get my burner fixed. The next solution is wipe the hard drive and do my best.
So I've decided to come here before I completely decide to give up and buy a refurbished mac to replace mine.
I have a first generation Macbook Pro, ya know from the early 2006s.
About 8 months ago I boosted my memory, backed up my hard drive and installed Leopard. Ever since then it's all been downhill.
I am completely dead on space. I cannot figure out for the life of me what is taking up so much room (I have an 60 or 80 gig HD, i don't remember exactly which, not at my computer right now).
I've deleted almost all the smaller applications that I do not use (including almost all iLife applications) as well as their library files. I do have about 5 gb of music on there but that's less than half of what I used to have because I keep deleting things to free up more space. I used to only get notifications about space when I was using things like iTunes and it was trying to save library files, or installing things. But now I've been getting notifications when I have 3 programs open (itunes, Adium (chat client) and safari) saying I have no application memory and have to close out of something to keep running my programs.
I've been in my system profiler and utlities and what not and there are a lot of hefty things running but I cannot identify what's crucial and what's not.
THe second issue, my CD burner. I installed this external hard drive late last year and it did not work. I returned the product, and thought I deleted all of it's components. However I still find things like WDDriveManager or something still running on my computer. I think it's running into my burner working. I cannot burn from itunes or anywhere, I always get a notice saying the burner is in use by another application.
The reason why i associate the external drive with the cd drive is because I've read some forums about the WesternDigital External HardDrive conflicting with other things,
Well, if that wasn't long enough, what do you all think? I do not have my AppleCare anymore so I can't just go in and get my burner fixed. The next solution is wipe the hard drive and do my best.