Hi, Most people already covered the basics, larger HD, clean caches, etc but one nasty thing leopard does out of the box that I don't think anyone mentioned is it downloads software updates in the background and takes up a bunch of space with their installer files until you do software update. Plus if you go into system preferences and tell it not to DL automaticly if it has downloaded anything already it just let's it sit there taking up space until you update. While I realize its a feature so you don't have to wait for software update downloads its very annoying to suddenly see a few GB missing from your HD one day which happened to me on a hackintosh netbook and those few GB was all I had left. With some work you can get 10.5 AND osx dev tools on an 8gb ssd & 8gb sd card working togather. The one tool I used to locate and get rid of large unnecessary files is called whatsize (whatsizemac.com). Its a paid tool ($13.00) but it helps you find ALL the large files even in the system/hidden folders. 10.5 has a bunch of non-english fonts in the system folder it always installs reguardless of the languages you pick that you can get rid of, there's speech voices, sound files, etc, that most people don't use too. There's a program out there to strip the intel code out of universial binary apps called Trim the fat (macupdate.com) that can save you some space, I believe its free. I would look at the user apps and user files too and see if you can free up about 10gb or so since I can tell you running 10.5 inside of tight constraints (8gb ssd) is possible but always an up hill battle and not fun. Last resort before buying a new HD I would do a clean install after backing up your user stuff, there may just be a lot of old system stuff floating around. HTH
Joe Reilly Stro <[email protected]> wrote: >Greetings, > I just upgraded my MDD dual 867mhz with 1.5gb ram to OS 10.5.8. Now >I am running out of memory. I have a 30gb harddrive dedicated solely >to system and it is completely used up. When I first started with >Leopard, I had over 5gb of memory space left on the hd, now I have >none. What can I do to regain the space, and any ideas how it >disappeared. > >Thanks, >Lee > >-- >You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] >For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
