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deleting PKG files in Library/Receipts
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my HD is running out of space, so I decided to delete the PKG files that were in Library/Receipts.
I have a feeling I should not have done that! Please tell me what troubles I am going to encounter.
Thanks
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Well, those were needed in order to complete the repair permissions process....
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how bad is that?
I am desperate for more room and need to delete anything I can. I moved all my movies off to a firewire drive.
Can I delete the System 9 folder?
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Originally Posted by VX4c90uu22-.01
Can I delete the System 9 folder?
not if you use classic of course.
there are likely better options for stuff to delete. how big is your HD? how big is your folder? how much free space do you have?
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Originally Posted by VX4c90uu22-.01
my HD is running out of space, so I decided to delete the PKG files that were in Library/Receipts.
I have a feeling I should not have done that! Please tell me what troubles I am going to encounter.
Thanks
If you are in that much need of free space, you NEED a new hard drive. A full hard drive gets fragmented easily. If this is your boot drive, you run the risk of having your swap files heavily fragmented, which would slow your computer down even worse.
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ACSA 10.4/10.3, ACTC 10.3, ACHDS 10.3
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Get WhatSize and see where all of your space is going.
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I wound up doing a complete erase-and-reinstall of 10.4. this really gave me a lot of new space and trashed a huge amount of junk that built up over the past 4 years.
I am glad I did it, but it was a good amount of work. I still haven't set up all the stuff I had before (Apple Mail, Entourage). I hope I grabbed the right files so that I can still access the email I had saved on my HD...
Its funny, there wasn't even an option to install OS9, which is good cause I didn't want it anyway.
Thanks for all the help!
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Mac OS 9 isn't a component of the Mac OS X installer, not in the past, nor in the present. It's included as a separate installation package for Macs that don't boot OS 9, or as a separate OS disc for Macs that could.
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Originally Posted by Philip J. Fry
Well, those were needed in order to complete the repair permissions process....
Not really.
BaseSystem.pkg is the only real "essential" receipt.
"Repairing" permissions really entails setting the privileges in /Applications to root:admin 0775.
sudo chown -R 0:admin /Applications
sudo chmod -R 775 /Applications
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Err, there's a lot more to it than that ...
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There is? Please enlighten me.
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