On Dec 24, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Stro wrote:
What can I do to regain the space,
Apple recommends 4GB freespace as a MINIMUM for Tiger or newer, and
more is better.
I'd buy a bigger HD, they're cheap now. Remember you need an ATA/IDE
(also called PATA now), NOT a SATA (unless you also buy an SATA PCI
card). It might be as easy to get an external Firewire HD and boot
from Firewire?
When I first started with Leopard, I had over 5gb of memory space
left on the hd, now I have
none. <clip> and any ideas how it disappeared.
5GB freespace is almost ZERO freespace on a modern computer. You need
freespace for the System virtual memory swap files, the internet
temporary files, and any other temp files from apps. It disappeared
into these files, and now you're hamstrung with no freespace.
Honestly, get a larger HD and clone your system across to the new HD.
Perhaps better, get TWO matching HDs and use one as a Time Machine
backup; or if you want more speed, get THREE HDs and use two as a
striped RAID to boot from, and one as a Time Machine backup. In this
scenario you'd get two matching that are half the size of the one
backup, so say two 250GB matching for the striped RAID to boot from,
and one 500GB for the Time Machine backup.
If you want to try and get some freespace on your current HD, there
are ways to trash large unnecessary files. Ones that I'm aware of are
tutorial movies for Quicktime or iMovie. I'm sure there are others,
you'll have to look. The way to find these large files is to do a Find
(Cmd-f) using the Size>Greater Than search field and select a large
size to start (so you won't get too many returns) and delete any large
unnecessary files. You can also use something like Monolingual to
remove extra languages, input methods, or CPU architectures you don't
need. Monolingual can free up to nearly 1 GB if you've installed all
the extra languages that you can't read. Also, since Leopard is
completely "universal" in contains double the code for BOTH PPC &
Intel CPUs. This is nice if you plan to upgrade to Intel, but not
completely necessary unless you planned upon moving the HD into an
Intel Mac or cloning it to an Intel Mac. Since the current Intel OS is
now Snow Leopard which lacks all PPC code, it would probably be better
to start on an Intel Mac with a clean installation of Snow Leopard and
reinstall fresh applications, so having Intel code on your PPC Mac is
probably just bloat for now and can be safely removed. Removing the
Intel code from Leopard using Monolingual will save a lot of space,
but your System will no longer be "universal", it will be PPC only.
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