Reclaim drive space by deleting iPod/iPhone firmware
Feb 12, '09 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: poenn
Here's a quick and painless way to regain some drive space. When iTunes downloads a new firmware for your iPod or iPhone, the older ones do not get deleted. Since they are quite big (for the iPhone, at least -- about 250MB each for my 2G iPhone), you can easily free up more than 1GB of drive space by deleting the older ones (which you usually won't need anyway).
The firmware files are located here:
~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates
~/Library/iTunes/iPod Software Updates
Just check the file names for the version numbers, and delete the older ones. If you're unsure, you can delete all of them, as iTunes will then re-download the newest one only when it's needed (i.e. a restore of an iPhone).
No great hint, but still nice to know.
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