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kisol007 · Jan 12, 2006, 10:23 AM

So, on my laptop I've run out of HD space... 60gbs gone... yea, there's a sizable chunck of music and photos and even some video, but still...

I did an information check on all my folders and found that my library folder in 2gbs in size! And then I checked the system library folder and it is 8gbs in size! Are you serious?

Anyone have some proven, You can delete this and still reboot, suggestions on how to reclamate some of my HD space?

Thanks.

typoon · Jan 12, 2006, 10:50 AM

You can run delocalizer and get rid of localizations that should free up a few hundred megs if not close to a gig.

Run iPhoto diet and get rid of some of the misc/extraneous stuff that iPhoto creates when you modify an image in iPhoto. You could also run Diskwarrior. If you have AOL installed in the prefsernce folder I believe it installs a "backup" installer. Remove that. It's another 10.5 megs or so. Do you need all that music on your laptop? If not back up some of it to CD/DVD.

JKT · Jan 12, 2006, 10:52 AM

Get OmniDiskSweeper to see what precisely is using up that space. Apps like GarageBand and iDVD have GB sized support files for instance.

Chuckit · Jan 12, 2006, 10:57 AM

I would not recommend deleting your system unless you know what you're doing.

osxrules · Jan 12, 2006, 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by kisol007

SI did an information check on all my folders and found that my library folder in 2gbs in size! And then I checked the system library folder and it is 8gbs in size! Are you serious?

That's odd, my system folder is only 2.17GB. I agree that Garageband uses a lot (I counted over 3GB) so that will reduce your Library folder but there is something in the System folder that maybe shouldn't be there - you're not supposed to even install stuff into the system folder so it shouldn't have changed much at all since you installed it.

Anyone have some proven, You can delete this and still reboot, suggestions on how to reclamate some of my HD space?

I would use an app like WhatSize. That tells you where the biggest folders are on your system. I found an idvd wedding project that was wasting 1GB of space that I'd forgotten about and temp files from some apps that don't clean up after themselves. Google Earth has a 300MB disk cache by default. I reduced it to 50MB.

CaptainHaddock · Jan 12, 2006, 11:34 AM

Yeah, use Omni DiskSweeper or WhatSize to see if there's unneeded stuff you can delete. A few programs like Unison keep large caches in the library that can be routinely deleted, and you might have a bunch of old system cache files that you can get rid of.