Jul 09, '02 09:16:41AM • Contributed by: Seedub
Only do this if you never plan to use these apps when booted in OS 9! I trashed 9 this week...
Hold the control Key while selecting an application and the contextual menu will pop up. Scroll down to "Show Pakages Contents" and the application will open like a folder, allowing you to roam around the libraries and bits that make the program work. Open the "Contents" folder and see if there are two folders there. If there are (one called "MacOS" and another called "MacOSClassic"), trash the "MacOSClassic" folder. Close all windows for that application and voila, you just shed 50% disk space (after emptying the trash, of course). After doing this, I haven't experienced any instability at all in those apps.
Applications where it made the biggest difference were PhotoShop and ImageReady, almost 70 MB between them. Other apps such as VPC and AppleWorks were less significant, but hey, when you've only got 10 Gigs, and 4 are used by your music collection, 1 gig by your OS, and 2 by your photgraphs, you try to claw back every MB possible!
If you really want to go crazy, go through all your plugins, too!
[Editor's note: This only works for apps which use this dual-mode configuration. Adobe Acrobat, for example, isn't built as a package, so you can't remove just the Classic bits. As the author states, once you've done this, you'll never be able to use these apps when booted in OS 9, so be sure of what you're doing before you do it!]
[Editor's addendum: Read the comments for an important caution -- make a backup first! Some apps keep OS X required resources in the Classic folder!]
