Mac Tip: Find space on your Macintosh HD
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Veteran Mac users might be familiar with this hint, but loads of switchers will surely enjoy this. You can slim down your hard disk and gain more space in a couple of minutes using my easy to follow step by step guide! It’s totally natural, and what’s more, it’s totally free. I didn’t want to sound like a yoga video, so before I get any worse, here it goes.
Open your Application folder and select iMovie. Press alt, cmd (the Apple key) and “i” and you’ll get an info pane. You’ll see that iMovie is over 70MB. Drop down the languages arrow and you’ll see a list of languages. Select them all BUT English and click on “Remove”. You’ll see that the app has slimed to about 46MB. Doing this for each and every app will result in GIGs of space being recovered. Some apps have “en_” or something similar instead of “English”. To complete the process you have to empty the Trash. I suggest you check how much space you have free on you HD to see the difference afterwards.
I should also tell you that there are apps which process to make this lengthy process easier. Two of which are Monolingual and DeLocalizer. I’m not suggesting you use these as some people seem to have had problems with them, but non-the less, you should be informed of their existence and that there have been success stories.
Will threre be any problems when updating the programs?
I’ve used Monolingual with success on my mini. I was able to free up about 2.5 GB by removing unused languages (all but english) and the archeticture types that I don’t have (G5, Intel, X64). The program can be dangerous if you’re not cautious as to what you’re removing.
WOW! 25 megs saved! ZOMG!
To save real space get rid of templates, i dumped the idvd and imovie templates to save more than 5 gigs, all 4 jam packs take up 20+ gigs unfortunatly, but look in application support for tons of templates youll never use, well i guess if you dont use FCP and DVD studip pro, then you might be stuck. :P
iTunes went from 60MB to 25.heh
ooh slimed, much better than slimmed. As long as it doesn’t leave an ectoplasm.
Please guys, PLEASE don’t remove PowerPC stuff with Monolingual on an Intel Mac! IT KILLS ROSETTA!
I repeat:
IT KILLS ROSETTA!!!
Hey, okay, I’ll take out the languages I recognize, thanks! But what the hell are “da,” “fi,” “ko,” “no,” “pt,” “sv,” “zh_CH,” and “zh_TW”? Some of them SEEM like language abbreviations…
Okay, I figured most of them out once I thought about them a little. Thanks, Chris! You saved me gigs! More importantly, I can do this on the ol’ laptop, where space really is tight.