[David2213]

Two day ago my girlfriend just got a new macbook. I've been helping her transfer files over from her powerbook which we backup onto an external HD. After transfering about 6GB of music, 2GB of photos, and a half gig of movie clips and documents her 80 GB HD(which i realize is only like 74 after formatting) is down to 50 gigs. I know that ilife and all that take up some room but about 20 GB seems high. I ran Disk Inventory X and found a file thats 2.0 Gb. Its a sleepimage and path is: /private/var/vm/sleepimage

What is the file and can i delete it. What could be taking up the rest of that space. I recently got a macbook as well and the first time i opened it, it said that i had about 66Gb of space on my 80Gb hd. so it seems like shes missing about ten gigs.


Thanks for all the help.

- David

[mfbernstein]

Sleepimage is just that: the image of the memory contents for when the machine goes into safe sleep. You can disable safe sleep and remove it, if you don't want it.

iLife is about 10-12GB, depending on what's installed (Garageband in particular is huge). You've got easily 3GB of printer drivers, and several gigs of localization. If you're really concerned about space, you should do a fresh install from the system restore disks, and make sure not to install such extras. Alternatively, a program like Monolingual can clean up localizations you don't need.

[peeb]

Don't sweat it if she has 50gb of free space still.

[analogika]

Also, the Intel version of OS X on the MacBook is considerably larger than the PPC version on the Powerbook.