More HD space

I remember back quite a while there was a topic here on how to gain more HD space. That was before Leopard came out. Are there programs for Leopard that will find all the excess languages (I think the last I looked, Monolingual wasn't upgraded for Leopard)?

Also there are programs that you can't remove or shouldn't, what are they? Any one know the barebones of Leopard?

Any suggestions of what progs or files to remove.

All space saving tips and opinions wanted....

Thanks

Personally with the price of external drives dropping and every week the sale prices drop more and more I just put a 500Gb external on my system and use it for timemachine and all my music plus just plain data storage. So my internal hard drive is only really used for installed programs themselves and all the storage is on the external.

Yes, it's not an option that I can take advantage of tho, which is why I was asking...

verdejt said:

Personally with the price of external drives dropping and every week the sale prices drop more and more I just put a 500Gb external on my system and use it for timemachine and all my music plus just plain data storage. So my internal hard drive is only really used for installed programs themselves and all the storage is on the external.

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I'm pretty sure you can remove every program excluding the finder, and you should keep safari since you need it to change your default web browser if need be. Videos take up a lot of space as well so maybe you could upload any to youtube or revver and than delete them off you computer. You could also for all work/school documents get a cheap flash drive. That's all I could think of for not as it is 11pm where I'm at.

its in one of the four stickies in the switcher forum. i was just reading it yesterday. but about removing excess languages i used onyx to do that. i only saved spanish and english uk and deleted everything else. i saved myself about 800mbs.

And remember, you can save about 2-3GB if you don't use Garageband

Ah great thanks...

sdsviet said:

its in one of the four stickies in the switcher forum. i was just reading it yesterday. but about removing excess languages i used onyx to do that. i only saved spanish and english uk and deleted everything else. i saved myself about 800mbs.

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Oh Ok thanks for that I found it in the stickies and bm'd it thanks ;D I also didn't know/remember you could do that with onyx, I guess I'll have to take another look at it...

Kash said:

And remember, you can save about 2-3GB if you don't use Garageband

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Ok that's a good one to get rid of...

I'm a little paranoid of messing up my mac, my prog disks are 5hrs away. I'm way too familiar with PC and while mac is easier, it gets harder as I complicate things with the PC way of doing things..

Hopefully I will get a backup drive but until then, I would really like to get rid of some of the clutter...

Thanks