Daisy Disk is currently on discounted sale on Mac App Store - highly recommend it if you want to easily locate offending large files to quickly send them to the bin.
On Apr 23, 12:39 pm, ARMS <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
