At 10:13 AM -0500 12/11/08, Steve R 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?
If you can start up from a separate drive, dismount your normal boot drive and still see them you can be pretty sure they're just on the non-OS drive and can delete away. You could also use Terminal to see if they're aliases/symlinks to files elsewhere. Open Terminal, type "cd" and a space, then drag the enclosing folder or drive into the Terminal window to give you the path to it. Hit return. Then type ls -al to list all the files/folders. Those that have a -> are symlinked from the location that the arrow is pointing toward. Aliases will show a zero in the size column. (at least in 10.3.9, where I just checked). Either way, if you're just using the drive/partition as a backup they should be safe to delete as the originals exist elsewhere. -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com> Sustainable Building Calendar: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/> Green Real Estate: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/> Straw Bale Registry: <http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/> Books/videos/software: <http://bookstore.greenbuilder.com/> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
