[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My perhaps innocently stupid question is this. If I want to get down > to the smallest waste space possible on the System folder and I have > lots of time and no money, is there any value is erasing and > reformatting the hard drive and then reinstalling all the programs I > have from the original disks. I have 8.1 and 8.5 and the 8.6 upgrade > and I can download everything onto another Mac with a ^Gig hard > drive. I have no idea what sort of time frame I am looking at or > whether that size of System Folder is normal.
Keith, 477mb is definitely "bloated". Your prefs and extns only account for 200mb of this, and the system, resources and finder should be less than 15mb. This leaves 250mb unaccounted for. If you turn on calculate folder sizes in your finder view preferences, you should be able to view your system folder in list view and track down the culprits. It is much easier to remove the offending files to the desktop and reboot and see what(if anything) breaks than reinstalling the entire system. This also lets you figure out what causes this and treat the problem rather than the symptoms. tom -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
