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<blockquote data-quote="NanoBite" data-source="post: 390097" data-attributes="member: 13565"><p>These are the apps you say you have no use for ... in total - they weigh in at 242.6Mb. You could extract them from your install dvd at any time using <strong><em><span style="color: DarkOliveGreen"><a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12743" target="_blank">Pacifist.</a></span></em></strong> </p><p></p><p>OmniOutliner, Comic Life & VLC are all 3rd party apps with the first 2 coming bundled with iLife '06 (AFAIK). VLC you can download from the internet and the other two you would use Pacifist to extract them from the OS X DVD/s.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: Red">OmniOutliner</span> = 38.8Mb</p><p><span style="color: Red">iCal</span> = 30.9Mb</p><p><span style="color: Red">Address Book</span> = 24.8Mb</p><p><span style="color: Red">VLC</span> = 34.2Mb</p><p><span style="color: Red">Chess</span> = 4.1Mb</p><p><span style="color: Red">Automator</span> = 13.7Mb</p><p></p><p><em><strong><span style="color: DarkSlateBlue"><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater/automator.html" target="_blank">Here is a video tutorial on how to use Automator.</a></span></strong></em></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Red">Mail</span> = 49Mb</p><p><span style="color: Red">Stickies</span> = 3.6Mb</p><p></p><p><em><strong><span style="color: Indigo">DVDRegionFree59.exe</span> - This is a Windows download, hence the .exe extension ... Safe to delete this file.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong></strong></em></p><p><span style="color: Red">iChat</span> = 25Mb</p><p><span style="color: Red">Comic Life</span> = 18.5Mb</p><p></p><p>Mail.app is one app I would hesitate to trash. It's a good email client and you haven't said which email client you are using. Also make sure you really don't use AddressBook.app before you trash that... </p><p></p><p>Basically, it all depends on your Hard Drive capacity ... you'll gain 242Mb and whether or not this is a substantial gain is your choice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NanoBite, post: 390097, member: 13565"] These are the apps you say you have no use for ... in total - they weigh in at 242.6Mb. You could extract them from your install dvd at any time using [B][I][COLOR="DarkOliveGreen"][URL="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12743"]Pacifist.[/URL][/COLOR][/I][/B] OmniOutliner, Comic Life & VLC are all 3rd party apps with the first 2 coming bundled with iLife '06 (AFAIK). VLC you can download from the internet and the other two you would use Pacifist to extract them from the OS X DVD/s. [COLOR="Red"]OmniOutliner[/COLOR] = 38.8Mb [COLOR="Red"]iCal[/COLOR] = 30.9Mb [COLOR="Red"]Address Book[/COLOR] = 24.8Mb [COLOR="Red"]VLC[/COLOR] = 34.2Mb [COLOR="Red"]Chess[/COLOR] = 4.1Mb [COLOR="Red"]Automator[/COLOR] = 13.7Mb [I][B][COLOR="DarkSlateBlue"][URL="http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater/automator.html"]Here is a video tutorial on how to use Automator.[/URL][/COLOR][/B][/I] [COLOR="Red"]Mail[/COLOR] = 49Mb [COLOR="Red"]Stickies[/COLOR] = 3.6Mb [I][B][COLOR="Indigo"]DVDRegionFree59.exe[/COLOR] - This is a Windows download, hence the .exe extension ... Safe to delete this file. [/B][/I] [COLOR="Red"]iChat[/COLOR] = 25Mb [COLOR="Red"]Comic Life[/COLOR] = 18.5Mb Mail.app is one app I would hesitate to trash. It's a good email client and you haven't said which email client you are using. Also make sure you really don't use AddressBook.app before you trash that... Basically, it all depends on your Hard Drive capacity ... you'll gain 242Mb and whether or not this is a substantial gain is your choice. [/QUOTE]
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