Thanks guys, and Sam that sounds like a good way to do it though I will look at some of the other software to clean up my own system. Enjoy the warm sun, I am off to cold and wet Scotland for two days. Andy
On Apr 23, 9:47 am, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: > By far the best way is to spend £50 on a 7200rpm 500gb 2.5" SATA hard drive, > like the western digital Scorpio black. You can back up your data using time > machine, swap to the new drive, install 10.6 then use the migration assistant > to restore from the time machine backup. > > The machine will be faster and have 4 times the space. > > Regards > > Sam > > -- > MacAmbulance > Sam Mullen07747778022 > [email protected] > > On 23 Apr 2011, at 08:53, Adam Field <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I found Mackeeper to be an excellent app for freeing up disk space and > > you get a 14 day free trial too. > > > -Adam > > > On Saturday, April 23, 2011, Russell Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Daisy disk has a nice GUI so you can see what is what. Makes it easier > >> to se where the space is being used up. > > >> Russell > > >> Sent from my phone, which may be an iPhone. > > >> On 23 Apr 2011, at 08:21, ARMS <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> Hi and Happy Easter to everyone. > >>> My brother has a MacBook with 120 Gb disk which has 3 Gb of free space > >>> left. His two sons have downloaded stuff over the past year which has > >>> probably contributed to the rubbish filling the system. I have tried > >>> to help him clean it out and he has moved a lot of his photos and > >>> music to another disk. He is running 10.5.8 and we cant update his > >>> system for lack of hard disk space. > >>> Is the best way of cleaning things out to just back up important > >>> files, format the hard drive and reload from the system disk? > >>> I can connect his MacBook to my MacBook Pro as a slave and format that > >>> way I think. > >>> Any advice would be mot appreciated. > >>> Thanks > >>> Andy > > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >>> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > >>> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> [email protected]. > >>> For more options, visit this group > >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]. > >> For more options, visit this group > >> athttp://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > -- > > Adam Field > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > C:+44 (0)750 624 1234 > > > Keep your computer secure by getting a mac. Visit > >http://www.apple.com/uk/getamac/ > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
