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I now have 65 mb in this folder, and was wondering if these files served any use besides the OS or applications keeping track of what-all updates had been applied, and what will be the repercussions of throwing any/all of these receipts away? I can see it perhaps being a problem with Apple's Software Update feature, but what about 3rd party receipts, such as printer driver packages and such?
Or should I just leave it the hell alone?
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Basically, that folder is used when you repair permissions. If you remove apps that may have installed a receipt, you can remove that with no problems.
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Originally posted by OptimusG4:
Basically, that folder is used when you repair permissions. If you remove apps that may have installed a receipt, you can remove that with no problems.
i.e. if you delete the receipts, you can no longer repair permissions w/r to that given receipt.
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So, although I'm on 10.3.8, I should keep the 10.3.1-10.3.7 reciepts, or can they go away, now? I'm on an anti-clutter crusade.
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Originally posted by chris v:
So, although I'm on 10.3.8, I should keep the 10.3.1-10.3.7 reciepts, or can they go away, now? I'm on an anti-clutter crusade.
Leave them there. If you need the space that bad, you need a new hard drive. If you had done a 10.3.8 combo update, I would think you could delete 10.3.1 through 10.3.7, but otherwise, there are changes that would have been in one update, but not in the other.
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I'm trying to educate myself about what's trash and what's not. Thanks! 
I don't need space all that bad-- I just hate it when I find 2 or 3 GB of suff that's useless. I've looked elsewhere today, and gained a lot of drive space back-- 80 + MB of Log files, and since the OS 9 system that I'd cloned from my Cube originally was meant for booting, (now on a G5, so no OS 9 booting any more) I rooted throught the System Folder, and my Classic apps and found another gig or so worth of crud. (Including 50 MB of Explorer cache! Duh!)
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