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    cleaning up hard drive.

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by imar3l, Feb 28, 2008.

  1. imar3l

    imar3l Notebook Evangelist

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    i installed leopard on old imac and its taking too much space..although i had clean install....is there anything i can delete from system or library? i already deleted some application like ichat...but no major gain..
    tnx
     
    imar3l, Feb 28, 2008
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    Im not experinced with mac, but im assuming you can Defrag? If you can, do a system defragmentation
     
    ahl395, Feb 28, 2008
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  3. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    It shouldn't be taking too much room. If you have iLife installed, and you don't use it much/at all, you may consider getting rid of that. GarageBand can take up a ton of space. But other than that, not really.
     
    Sam, Feb 28, 2008
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    how many gigs is it currently using on your system? You may have done an archive and install which saves your old OS into a folder on the system.
     
    tianh, Feb 28, 2008
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