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- AgentX24, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35How to reclaim your hard drive:
Delete some files. - AssProphet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22yeah I use WhatSize to help determine where my HD bloat is. http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/
I don't know why it's not mentioned in this article. It's a great app. - vudicarus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15one thing that isn't mentioned that takes up a lot of hard drive space is iLife app themes and templates. iDVD includes themes from versions 3-6 which take up 1.6 GB. You can find them in root / library / application support / iDVD
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Correction: CLICKING and DRAGGING!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Too.. Much... PORN!
- jfinke, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11I thought it was going to be some kind of defrag, delete hidden files type of article.. I was sorely disappointed.
Like you said: Delete some files. - kwojniak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@AssProphet
WhatSize is mentioned at the very bottom of the article. And I agree - it's an excellent app for finding those large files. - mikev, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Haha, you said 'fab'..
- LawrenceDudley, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10*****
- repruhsent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Another huge hog of space is printer drivers. Trimming that category down to only drivers for the brands of printers that I have when I was installing saved me a few gigs.
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6But even the tools offered to "delete some files [that you didn't know you had]" are old.
The current best is Disk Inventory X - Laton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Which is a great idea unless you have an Apple notebook or a mac mini. I know that one could potentially get an external HDD but really, that defeats the purpose of having a portable device.
PS, To answer your question, I think in the future you actually need to say less. - DocNo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I admit, when I first saw the title I kinda rolled my eyes - but for some reason I clicked on the article.
And then there was the tidbit - delete old archive installs of the system. D'oh! I did an archive install to revive my PowerBook earlier this year. Quick look at the hard drive - there it is. A quick drag and empty of the trash and I got 10 gigs back. Woot! Sometimes it is the simple things.... - xyritheon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3well ive been schooled.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3they forgot to mention the printer drivers, by default OS X installs like a gig and a half of printer drivers, for every concievable printer... It puts like 600 megs of EPSON drivers in there, and if i ever need to use an EPSON printer, i can damn well find the driver..
- chix0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3this guy is just trying to sell his book..
dugg down. - skidogallard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually, Windows will not read HFS+, therefore that would be quite impossible.
- Zero2aHero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ever since I got a macbook my hard drive seemed strangely full for what I had on here. I realized that iTunes had an exact copy of my library in two different spots.
user: music
and also in...
user: music: itunes: itunes music
I ended up freeing up 17gb of space. - AssProphet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4@benitojuarez Just because the article is written for an eight year old, doesn't mean that mac users are stupid.
- m0ke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I reccomend a program called GrandPerspective, it shows all of the files in your hardrive as blocks in represented in a box. It draws from the same vein as bits on wheels, and applies it to a different concept. http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
- mikev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2correction: SKOOL'D
- rdoger6424, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3sw1val: nice try, dumbass. you have to become root to REALLY mess it up anyway. try sudo rm -rf /
everyone else: DO NOT DO THIS COMMAND! IT WILL FORMAT YOUR HARD DRIVE!
sudo = become root (the ultimate user of your system)
rm = remove
-r = recursive (if it's a directory, remove all the folders in the directory, and its subfolders)
-f = reformat (really drive it home) - mikev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, someone promoting their product...
STOP WEB CRIMES - JuyLe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I tried... and I can tell you it begins to delete your apps first. Hopefully I had backup ! Too bad to be a terminal n00b.
- JuyLe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What does this function do actually ?
- CharlesGriswold, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doing that will erase everything on your system that you have access to. If OSX users run as root by default (which would be a Bad Thing (tm)) it will erase everything.
- LawrenceDudley, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Quote:
Applications -> Utilities -> terminal
then type
rm -rf /
Actually that command will result in either an operation not permitted or a permissions error of some sort.
I think what you intended was:
sudo rm -r -f /
And for anyone else's info, it ReMoves (rm) everything Recursively (-r) without asking (Force -f)
The sudo command allows you to run a command as root - and as such it circumvents any permissions issues you might have with the original command
All clear? - Lounger540, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Check your ~/Library/Logs folder,
I just noticed today a couple of our Macs were having problems w/ qmasterd and it was writing 5 lines of error text every second, left on for a couple of weeks meant almost 30gb for one log file :-d - smcavoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ rdoger6424
-f mean force, not format. as in it will not prompt for each file - JohnBooty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"not knocking anybody but i'm thinking it really shouldn't be necessary. storage is relatively cheap these days and the 24" imac now features an optional 750gb hd"
What about those of us with laptops? Hard drive space is relatively scarce on them.
Also, consider that Macs are quite popular with developers (especially web developers) these days because you can run all the major consumer desktop OSs (OSX, Linux, Windows) on them with Parallels workstation.
Those Parallels VMs eat up a lot of drive space. Mine are 4-10GB each and any developer using his Mac for this purpose will probably have several of them.
So yeah, space is a little tight on my 80GB MacBookPro. - repruhsent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Waste not, want not. When you first install Mac OS X, it only takes a few clicks to deselect languages and printer drivers that you don't need. Isn't that worth the 1 - 2 GB extra you'd have on your hard drive? That's a lot of music, a lot more photos, and a heck of a lot more space for documents.
- leatherscot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yep - Automated Maintenance apps can do most of this - and there are many good FREE apps - Just another example of a VERY lame article
- mok000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0MacJanitor is an app that runs the daily, weekly and monthly maintenance scripts that are not run by default by OSX. Rotates log files and does other cleanup.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1ummm. add a drive.
- Danyc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1not knocking anybody but i'm thinking it really shouldn't be necessary. storage is relatively cheap these days and the 24" imac now features an optional 750gb hd. its only going to get better, bigger and cheaper, right? i read something today about how "soon" we all may have personal IP addresses that identifies us to/with our phones, computers and misc. -- same should be for hd's? sort of a tangent but i thought i'd share..
- imcquill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the following link provides an automator script which removes the powerpc binary part of universal application bundles (probably not hard to remove intel part instead). It also removes all non-English language files. Apparently it cleans tons of space.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060609195046756&query=disk%2Bspace%2Buniversal%2Bbinary - johnwc723, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0OS X is completely rediclous about printer drivers, and for what? The sake of a user not having to pop a driver CD in when they buy a printer? Not installing any printer drivers on a 10.4 re-format will cut your install size from 4GB to 2GB. If your using any computer, even though its a Mac, I hope you can operate a CD drive.
- reb42, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3great it links to a 10.2 app... fab article
- xyritheon, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5"and next, we'll show you how to move those files to a more convenient spot on your computer with the magic of CUTTING and PASTING !!!!! "
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5Macs don't have HD bloat.
Every release is perfect until the next release.
/sarcasm - OnoTadaki, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4Just open up iDelete and iRemove some of your iFiles off your iHarddrive.
- timro, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1No need to get mad at each other, sometimes a lot of text looks intimidating and you don't want to read it all.
- bdpf, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0A few words.
Get a second hard drive...........
Need I say more. - g0tmk, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4bury
- u8myfoood, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1WAIT YOU CAN DELETE FILES!?!?!?!
HOLY COW... thats unpossible... who else knew deleting files will empty up hdd space? - sw1val, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2Applications -> Utilities -> terminal
then type
rm -rf / - kolop1, on 10/12/2007, -20/+2How to make more space on a Mac hard drive. Put it in a windows PC and wipe it.
- benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -33/+8right? i thought mac users were smarter than windows users, thats why theyre using a mac right? At least thats what i always hear macheads saying. But i guess they need a guide to delete files too.
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