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other ways to save disk space
Authored by: McBainLives on Apr 25, '06 07:49:21AM

I've found that significant amounts of disk space can be recovered by eliminating unnecessary language resources (with the added advantage of reducing the number of individual files on your Mac). On a factory-fresh 10.4 install, I once recovered 1.2GB using "Monolingual" (freeware) to strip out all languages except English, American English, and British English. Really- how many times are you gonna read the Dutch version of the iTunes help files? Note that you'll need to run Monolingual again in the future, because OS and application updates will just put the localization files right back.
If you're really serious about freeing up space, don't forget all of the extra printer drivers that you don't need- Print Setup Repair (shareware, worth the $$) can handle that, though it only removes by manufacturer- it doesn't let you strip out, say, Lexmark inkjets when you only need a single Lexmark laser driver. Some of the standard driver sets in OS X take up 100's of MB's (think HP and Epson).

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other ways to save disk space
Authored by: tidjj on Apr 27, '06 11:04:28AM
Take a look to /Library/Receipts too

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