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Mar 29, 2001, 12:56 PM
 
ok, dumb move on my part: I wanted to check out the dev tools so I installed them from the cd, only problem is that there is not really enough space on my drive so I deleted most of it after looking around a bit to see what tools were there.

However, it is not all gone (I really need a larger HD here!!) - what else can I remove? It looks like there is a bunch of stuff in /System/Library/Frameworks ... such as AppKit.framework and others...
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Mar 30, 2001, 03:51 PM
 
DO NOT DELETE THE FRAMEWORKS!

I'm pretty sure they're needed for the OS to function properly.

Your best bet would be to reinstall OS X, to be honest. I'm sure i read about the possibility of uninstalling packages on OS X Server, but that this functionality was broken in OS X final. I could be wrong.
     
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Mar 31, 2001, 10:02 AM
 
Um, you most definitely don't want to delete the system frameworks (AppKit is a major one).

Once you delete everything under /Developer, the most space still taken up is probably by the documentation, most of which is stored inside the framework bundle. So it would be safe to delete everything under /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Resources/English.lproj/Documentation (plus similar Documentation directories in other frameworks, Foundation particularly). It's also probably safe to delete the Headers directory as well, but those take up relatively little space. Don't delete anything else unless you're sure you know what you're doing -- it's not worth the risk.
     
   
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