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My mac book which is old bit still meets my needs has a hard drive of 120 gig however 60 gig is taken up by "other" files. What is the best solution for cleaning up the hard drive please
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Osx snow leopard about this mac- storage
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Use Grand Perspective to see what's taking up your disc space.
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Replacing the hard drive is very easy, so it might be time to get a bigger one. They are not expensive these days.
GrandPerspective
Replacing the hard drive is very easy, so it might be time to get a bigger one. They are not expensive these days.
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Another suggestion is to delete all the unnecessary non-en and non-english .lproj language files with Monolingual and often save 4GB or more of HHD space. And add any non-Intel code as well for some more savings in its options.
Read the manual first and immunize any later MS Office 2008+ and recent Adobe software from being stripped. Otherwise their auto-updaters won't work.
Download Monolingual for Mac - Remove unwanted OS X language resources. MacUpdate.com
Read the manual first and immunize any later MS Office 2008+ and recent Adobe software from being stripped. Otherwise their auto-updaters won't work.
Download Monolingual for Mac - Remove unwanted OS X language resources. MacUpdate.com
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