On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Steve R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I make it a habit of downloading to a non-OS drive or partition, and
> from there will mount or unzip a downloaded application, moving or
> installing to the OS drive Applications folder. File Buddy is showing
> a lot of invisible files, the sort I would expect to find on an OS
> drive, such as /user/bin... etc. I'm also noticing an X11.app with
> related files. I never run an application from this download drive
> (or mounted image). Can I safely delete these files which have grown
> into GBs of space in the past two years?


What will make a PC happy will make the files slower to open or even
unreadable the next time you try to open them on a Mac as various
qualifiers and settings will be lost.

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