on 23.01.2003 14:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would appreciate some help here, please. After getting help from > various people in defragging my hard drive, I took a look and noted > that my System Folder is 477MB out of the 2 Gig on my hard drive. >
<snip> > > 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. > > For reference I am running a C500 200 mHz, 603e processor with 144 MB > of EDO 2k ram and System 8.6. Everything is as it came from the > factory except for a USB card I installed so I could run an Epson C60 > printer and Iomega 100 zip drive. > > I have Adobe Acrobat 4 along with the Distiller, Capture etc. > Adobe Photoshop 5.5 lite > Appleworks 6 > Claris Home Page 3 > Eudora > Pagemaker 6.5 > Quicktime 5 > Explorer 5 > > Can anybody recommend beginner level books or websites that could > take me through some of the early learning curve to be a webmaster? > Claris Home Page is a dream to use and I find it quite easy to put > the pages and sites together - simple as they are - but I also need > to find out how to properly prepare sites before they are submitted > to the various search engines and how to do the submissions, manually > or some software program to handle that. > Hi Keith, Considering that the default location for the Eudora folder--including all your email messages--is in the System Folder, and the amount of files that several of the other apps keep there, this is not necessarily excessive. You can probably trim quit a bit out of the Preferences folder, but be sure you only remove preference files belonging to apps that are no longer in use. A couple of guidelines here: 1) Look first at preference files that haven't been modified in the past month or so. But be careful; obviously things like your network preferences may be untouched. If you're not sure, just leave it; it does no harm, just takes up space. 2) Check for files that include the name of software you know for sure you have dumped. 3) Except for PACE copy protection files, it's highly unlikely you'll cause any serious damage if you do trash something you need; most software will just create a new file and you'll have to re-enter the serial number and/or preferences again. You might wish to lurk on the following list <http://lowendmac.com/lists/macweb.shtml>. Ultimately some knowledge of HTML is required, and searches at <http://search.about.com/> or <http://www.ask.com/> could yield some good points of departure. HTH, paul -- Paul F. Henegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
