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10.4: Reclaim drive space after an Archive and Install
Authored by: mm2270 on Jun 01, '05 12:27:22PM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it make more sense to just confirm that your new system is functioning as you expect and that you don't need to pull over any files from the old "Previous System" folder (which I wouldn't recommend doing anyway) and just delete that entire previous system to reclaim space?

After each archive and install I've ever done, I wait about a week or two, then just delete the entire previous system. You can't boot from it, so there isn't much point in keeping on your hard drive.



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10.4: Reclaim drive space after an Archive and Install
Authored by: jaysoffian on Jun 01, '05 08:52:56PM

I disagree with this assertion. I've found myself going into Previous System months after an upgrade to dig something out that I hadn't used in a while and that hadn't been re-installed.

To each his own I guess, but drive space is cheap, so I keep it around. Per the original hint, old log files, swap files, caches, etc, aren't really worth keeping though.



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10.4: Reclaim drive space after an Archive and Install
Authored by: felix-fi on Jun 02, '05 04:50:01AM

Drive space is cheap... but my powerbook hd is almost always full ;-)

Even if you keep the whole previous system around for a while... there is no way you will ever need the swap files (even the OS deletes them upon reboot)...



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