>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.
Have you got VM on? That takes a slice of the HD as does the disk
cache. If you have the 8.5 installer you can do a custom install and keep
your system free of unnecessary items and third party stuff.
From the custom 9.1 installer I install the recommended system,
Remote Access and Java runtime only. Following installation I upgrade to
QT 6.0.2 and CarbonLib 1.6 then I remove or disable the unwanted extns
and control panels like QuickDraw3D, OpenGL, Location stuff, FileSharing,
SoftwareUpdate, Network stuff, UDF stuff (dvd extension), Enet stuff,
multi user, Ldap stuff, AppleTalk, security stuff, firewire stuff, folder
actions and scripts, QuickTime VR, voice stuff, app switcher, device
sharing stuff, all the Colorsync profiles, all the modem scripts, all the
help files (not the guide stuff although I'd like to...), all the
favourites, all the print drivers, all the da's like Calculator,Stickies
etc, etc and toss the Internet search sites in the trash.
I may have forgotten some others....oh - Video Player, Map, Monitors
extra, font extras, network browser, Launcher and Launcher items, desktop
pics, platinum sounds - the list goes on....
Then I put my modem script in - just the one...my monitor and
printer icc profiles in the Colorsync Prof folder - the original drivers
to drive the printer plus a rip for photo printing and a little more
control over my Epson 1200 and the MagicScan app and driver.
Then I begin to install my software....... I wouldn't know where to
start a similar exercise in OSX so I haven't converted and probably never
will - I'd like a smaller, faster system rather than a much bigger and
slower one.
Pete in the UK
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