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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / August 2004how to free space on iBook HD/What to delete
I have an iBook G4. My system, not including home directories, is taking up about 10+ gigs. I've seen OSX systems at work that take up several gigs less. I've removed the World Book Encyclopedia already. What else can I do to trim this system down? I don't really use any Apple software besides the OS. Thanks. > I have an iBook G4. My system, not including home directories, is > taking up about 10+ gigs. I've seen OSX systems at work that take up [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Thanks. Do you mean your "system is takng up 10+ gigs" as the operating system? Or, is 10+ gigs the total space taken on your HD? Applications - like the encyclopedia - are usually not part of your "operating system"; so deleting them doesn't change your system heap bur does free up HD space. Which are you trying to accomplish? Cathy  Signature"there's a dance or two in the old dame yet." - mehitabel C.Stevenson, M.D. cats1921@sonic.net > Do you mean your "system is takng up 10+ gigs" as the operating system? > Or, is 10+ gigs the total space taken on your HD? 11 gigs is the space taken up on the HD, minus my home directory. I've only installed a handful of applications, so most of this I assume is the default installation. > Applications - like the encyclopedia - are usually not part of your > "operating system"; so deleting them doesn't change your system heap > bur does free up HD space. Which are you trying to accomplish? I'm trying to trim down what Apple installed on the iBook. Is the iBook shipped 'fatter' than some systems? I've seen systems running OSX with ~5 gigs occupied total. This is my first Mac and I'm wondering how I can free up at least a few of these gigs. I got rid of WorldBook, the Microsoft Office trial, and a few other things. What's the minimum size of an OSX installation, and how can a get closer to that? :) >> Do you mean your "system is takng up 10+ gigs" as the operating system? >> Or, is 10+ gigs the total space taken on your HD? >11 gigs is the space taken up on the HD, minus my home directory. >I've only installed a handful of applications, so most of this I assume >is the default installation. My PowerBook "system stuff" was down to 5.5GB, which included OS-X 10.3.5 and MS-Office. With 11GB you must still have a lot of extras. Adding X11 and XCode added about 2.5GB. SignatureChris. > I'm trying to trim down what Apple installed on the iBook. Is the iBook > shipped 'fatter' than some systems? I've seen systems running OSX with > ~5 gigs occupied total. This is my first Mac and I'm wondering how I can free > up at least a few of these gigs. I got rid of WorldBook, the Microsoft > Office trial, and a few other things. If you have the time and can be bothered, do a clean install of the system and wipe the hard drive while your at it. Apple's default installation of the OS always includes tons of extra language files and fonts and printer drivers and whatnot that you probably don't need. SignatureMathias Rongved www.rongved.com Hi, I've just done the same.. here's some hints... Garage band takes up about 2GIG, the development tools take up 600Meg, there are printer drivers taking up 600Meg (although I didn't, you may want to keep these if you ever intend to print). I also ran a program called delocalizer (recommended here on this group yesterday) that freed up about 400Meg by removing, e.g., the Japanese help files as well as other non-English language help. Although I kept it, iDVD also takes up over 1GIG. J. > I have an iBook G4. My system, not including home directories, is > taking up about 10+ gigs. I've seen OSX systems at work that take up [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Thanks. |
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