OS X is HUGE!

[Mr Skills]

If you delete the languages, does that mean the next time you're on a website with Japanese text it will all come up as question marks?

 

[uaaerospace]

Some of your space may be going to virtual memory as well. Your VM size can be quite large. Does anyone know for sure if OS X reports VM space as "used" or "free"?

 

[Some_Big_Spoon]

First thing I do when I get a new machine is a clean install. That gets rid of all the junk and lets me decide what I put on. After installing all my apps and getting set up, then I run Monolingual for languages, and Intel code on a PPC system. After that, I get rid of Help files, PDF's I don't need, demos, tutorials, Apache, etc. I also use iphoto diet, which hasn't been updated for 6.

I'm pretty militant about keeping things trim and it saves me quite a bit in space.

 

[lexus]

Embarrassing question:

If you delete the languages, will your translator widget still function?

Yes it uses Systran web based translation.

 

[ifjake]

one idea that i'm about to just try because i don't use the app at all and i'd be able to reinstall it if need be: there are a good bit of .mov's in iDVD that are labeled with "PAL" referring to the european television standard, while it seems that there are also "NTSC" - american versions - of those same files. wikipedia tells me that with DVD's the only thing that really means is frame rate and line count (not color). so i figured you could ctrl click and "Show Package Contents," do a search for PAL or NTSC depending upon your location, and hit delete. iDVD is 1.5 gigs for me, so this could give me a bit back.
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and it did. i got half a gig out of this. i'm assuming problems could occur once i select PAL in the preferences so i won't do that (since those were the ones i canned). this is better than the disk image solution which only got me like 50 MBs.

i like this thread.

 

[ifjake]

while i'm at it, on my particular system somehow i had two duplicate folders of GarageBand loops. actually it wasn't duplicate, one had more. i think this came about from a previous install when i did the whole Migration Assistant thing or something odd like that. so i deleted one. i actually use GarageBand on occasion so i'd rather not can the whole thing. that got me about a gig, and for those of you who migrated from a mac with previous versions of iLife might want to check that and see if that's the case for you.