Best way to remove applications and unneeded files

I have an Imac running slow. Duo Core processor. 4 mgs Ram. Disabled Java in Safari. Getting all my photos off the computer. Safari runs slow. Beachball forever. Have removed past Mac Keeper. Want to know the best way (Until I can add more RAM, if I can, to speed up my mac. I have had to purchase Adobe Cloud to replace Photoshop etc and want to remove all files on my computer not needed for Adobe and any other files slowing down my computer. Also, need Safari to be working. I wait for ever for pages to load and to access Gmail. Want to defragment my hard drive as well.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Empty the trash in the Dock as well as iPhoto’s trash!
Open up your application folder & go through all your apps. Trash all the apps you no longer want and/or use.
An easier way to do this is to open the Application folder in list view & press the Command+j keys.
In the the dialog that appears, click the "This Window Only" button & the "Calculate All Sizes" check box.
Wait a bit until your file & folder sizes have all been calculated, then click the "Size" column to sort your apps from the fattest to the most anorexic.
Get rid of all your photo files you don't want and/or need. Same goes for those pics off the websites you downloaded (gifs, jpegs, etc.). Or transfer/move them all to a photo/movie storage site like ImageShack and Photobucket, 2 of the most popular FREE storage sites.
Get rid of all your video & music files you no longer view and/or listen too. Especially, if you already have the actual CD/DVDs or you can later redownload from a website. Or transfer them all to a FREE video/movies and/or music storage site.
Use Spotlight to make sure you got rid of everything. You can even trash directly from Spotlight! Better yet, download this FREE software called Find File. This app puts Spotlight to shame (works w/Mountain Lion).
Drag what you don't want and/or need to the trash. Better yet, download this neat little shareware app *demo* called AppZapper. It basically does all the work for you by not only trashing the apps but the apps preference files, caches & all its associated files.
Another software that does the above is AppDelete. Best of all this software is free!
Burn what you want and/or need onto CDs or DVDs. Not everyone has the luxury of purchasing an external HD and/or the system requirements for iCloud to store their "stuff.”
Dropbox is a free storage utility to check out.
You can check with your ISP to see if they offer *free* storage space. Most if not all do now-a-days. There are thousands if not millions of *free* storage facilities on the web also. Use your favorite search engine to search them out as they come in different storage sizes to fit your needs & wants.
Check for duplicate fonts.
Applications>Font Book
Select “All Fonts”
If you see any “black dots” next to any fonts this mean you have duplicates and/or multiple versions of these fonts.
To clean this up, select a “black dotted” font or the Apple + *click* to select multiple dotted fonts;
Edit>Resolve>Duplicates.
What the above does is turns off the duplicates & multiple version fonts. Not delete them.
More than likely the “extras” were installed by other programs and/or other users.
Clear out font caches
Use FontNuke. It does all the work for you. And, best of all it’s *FREE*.
Printer Drivers
Get rid of all the printer drivers you don’t need & use except the ones for your *current* printer(s)/scanner(s).
HD>Library>Printers Folder
If you accidently threw something out that you needed for your printer/scanner it can be easily obtained from the manufacturer’s website and/or from the CD that came w/the printer/scanner.
Garage Band
Has about 1GB of loops stored. Get rid of some some them. You surely don’t use, like and/or need them all.
HD>Library>Audio/Apple Loops>Apple>Apple Loops For GarageBand
Or just get rid of the Garage Band app altogether if you don’t use it.
Get rid of extra languages
Strip your computer down to your “native” tongue.
You can do this with a *FREE* utility called Monolingual. Another app that apparently does all the work for you. I’ve never used it. However, a lot of users here swear by & recommend it highly.
However, there is a warning for *native English speakers*. Make sure you keep BOTH English and English (United States).
Other Resources:
HD Space Checkers:
Disk Inventory X (FREE)
WhatSize (SHAREWARE)
OmniDiskSweeper (FREE)
GrandPerspective (FREE - donation)
==================
Mac Performance Guide
Slimming your hard drive
Rule of thumb: You should never let your hard drive get to where you have only 10-15% of space left.
===============
Quick fix
How To Quickly Free Up Hard Drive Space on Mac OS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO-mlLApEuk
=================
Suggest you post in the Safari forum for your beach ball problem if the suggestions mentioned in the Troubleshoot the spinning beach ball article are of no help.

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What is the best way to remove applications?

I would like to remove unused applications (iChat, Dashboard, iCalendar and so on...)
I am running audio software and using CPU quite heavily.
What wold be the best way to remove these types of applications completely and have as minimal running in the background possible??? (I have already turned off Bluetooth, Airport etc...)
Should I install removal software or just send them all to the Trash bin?

None of those applications are running unless you launch them. Dashboard widgets only use CPU time and RAM if they are running. If you quit all widgets in the Dashboard then there's no memory footprint or use of the CPU.
If you don't want anything but essentials running then don't launch any applications and remove any Login Items from Accounts preferences.
Just because an application is installed on the computer does not mean it is running unless you launch it or configure it to launch automatically. So there is no need to remove any of these applications or utilities.
You will find some good books on Macs and computers in general at your local bookstore. Your question suggests that you could benefit by reading a few.
As for how to uninstall applications that you have installed see the following:
Uninstalling Software: The Basics
Most OS X applications are completely self-contained "packages" that can be uninstalled by simply dragging the application to the Trash. Applications may create preference files that are stored in the /Home/Library/Preferences/ folder. Although they do nothing once you delete the associated application, they do take up some disk space. If you want you can look for them in the above location and delete them, too.
Some applications may install an uninstaller program that can be used to remove the application. In some cases the uninstaller may be part of the application's installer, and is invoked by clicking on a Customize button that will appear during the install process.
Some applications may install components in the /Home/Library/Applications Support/ folder. You can also check there to see if the application has created a folder. You can also delete the folder that's in the Applications Support folder. Again, they don't do anything but take up disk space once the application is trashed.
Some applications may install a startupitem or a Log In item. Startupitems are usually installed in the /Library/StartupItems/ folder and less often in the /Home/Library/StartupItems/ folder. Log In Items are set in the Accounts preferences. Open System Preferences, click on the Accounts icon, then click on the LogIn Items tab. Locate the item in the list for the application you want to remove and click on the "-" button to delete it from the list.
If an application installs any other files the best way to track them down is to do a Finder search using the application name or the developer name as the search term. Unfortunately Spotlight will not look in certain folders by default. You can modify Spotlight's behavior or use a third-party search utility, Easy Find, instead. Download Easy Find at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
Some applications install a receipt in the /Library/Receipts/ folder. Usually with the same name as the program or the developer. The item generally has a ".pkg" extension. Be sure you also delete this item as some programs use it to determine if it's already installed.
There are also several shareware utilities that can uninstall applications:
AppZapper
CleanApp
Yank
SuperPop
Uninstaller
Spring Cleaning
Look for them at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
For more information visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on removing software.

Best way to remove noise and artifact - CS3

Hello folks,
Currently I'm struggling with a stock agency on a few images where the rejection is for "Artifact" and "Noise". First, let me ask - are these the same? They sometimes list these problems independently. They state that "camera setting and RAW processing are the likely cause". I don't "think" my camera settings are the problem - 100 ISO, 16.7mp RAW's.
So the question is this; how do I tell if I have these issues in a file? They are inspected at 100%.
Next, if I have these issues, what is the best way to fix them? I know of the noise reduction filter, however, not sure of the best settings. Or, should I be considering 3rd party software?
Thanks for any help!

I see two particular things in your pic that could be considered "artifacts":
- You have several sensor dust spots that show up in the sky. These should be cloned or healed out.
- You have pretty high edge sharpening applied to this image. What sharpening setting are you using in DPP? You need to be careful with DPP sharpening because it can be deceiving. Even a low amount of sharpening in DPP is the equivalent of fairly high USM sharpening in Photoshop. The difference is that DPP uses a threshold that applies the sharpening only to edges.
Regarding noise, I don't see much if any. In fact, it looks to me that a fair amount of noise reduction, possibly in DPP, has been applied that is smearing the detail to some extent. Check the noise reduction settings you are using in DPP. For an ISO 100 image, you should be able to get away with almost zero noise reduction unless you are having to push the exposure.
Finally, and please take this as constructive criticism, the composition of the image leaves a little bit to be desired. My first reaction was "this would be a fantastic image if it wasn't for those trees and buildings". I mention this because that may be playing an indirect role in the rejection - they may feel that the minor defects are enough to disqualify a less-than-compelling image. If you have the pixels and it meets their submission guidelines, I would suggest cropping the image to include only the mountains and the tops of the trees (without the buildings). That might help you along also.
Hope that helps.

Best way to handle .properties and .xml files

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Does a full hard drive and slow machine warrent upgrading to a new one?

I have 13 GB free out of 250GB
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thank you if you know and are willing to post - cheers

ok, email attachments definitely worked, was able to read .pdf files for sure.
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This is how far the iPhone has come in 18 months ?
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Best way to remove Noise and Artifact CS3 - Take 2

Good Morning folks,
Sorry to bring this up again, I need to beat this and I know I can get the right help here-----------------
I've hit a high on the frustration level last night when the stock agency rejected 3 more images for these reasons again! So now I'm douting my work, camera and processing and I want to conquer this! They keep complaining of artifact! First, how do I see if my images have this? I check my work at 100% - scanning very closely.
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Is it better to save the file as a Tiff, do the last check in PS and then save as a JPEG?
How can I tell if I have artifact? What does it look like?
What else can I do to improve my image quality for them?
Thanks for any help - suggestions------
Very Frustrated,
Jan

Bill, thanks for the response! I will take a look at that program.
What I'm having problems with is just getting good images for a stock agency. I'm using a 16.7 mp camera, I really believe my problem is the processing. I photograph in RAW, however, the agency wants JPEGs so I was converting to that, cleaning them up, doing only one final save before I upload. I'm going to change it up now - RAW - Tiff - Jpeg last!
After reading the replys, I need to test to see what is working for the sharpening part. I think I'm over doing it and that's where the artifact is coming in. they say the stock agencies inspect at 100%, so do I, but now I think I know what to look for - I didn't before.
Forging ahead,
Jan

What is the best way to remove apps and restore hard drive space?

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1. Empty Trash.
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2. Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.
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3. Repair Disk
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Best way to remove osx.1,5

I never use osx on my G3 iMac and would love to remove it so as just to run on 9.2.2 .. Not sure of the best way to remove osx and all the associated applications.
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What's the best way to removed unwanted files?

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bad dad wrote:
I have an iMac G4 running OS X 10.4.11 with 1GB of DDR SDRAM. I'm wondering what's the best way to remove unwanted files from the RAM, if it's even possible. There are apps and other files I no longer need. If I can dump the unused files will it help the computer run a little faster? Can I eliminate the unwanted files some how by myself or do I need a program that does it? Thanks
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Best to have greater than 2gig of free space on your Harddrive. Many posters to these forums state that you need much more free space: 5 gig to 10 gig or 10 percent of you hd size.
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Be careful when deleting files. A lot of people have trashed their system when deleting things. Place things in trash. Reboot & run your applications. Empty trash.
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Run
OmniDiskSweeper
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This will save you a gig of space.
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http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/
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What is the best way to remove last line-feed in text file? (so that the last line of text is the last line, not a line-feed). The best I can come up with is: echo -n "$(cat file.txt)" > newfile.txt
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According to my experiments, you have removed all line terminators from the file, and replaced those between lines with a space.
That is to say, you have turned a multi-line file into one long line with no line terminator.
If that is what you want, and your files are not very big, then your echo statement might be all you need.
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I guess if you really did mean to remove all newline characters and replace them with a space, except for the last line, then a modification of the above perl script would do that:
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Properly removing programs and other files

I recently tried to install World of Warcraft on my macbook. After I realized that my computer was just a little too slow to run it properly I tried to erase it. Now my macbook is telling me that my hard drive is almost full and I'm convinced that I didn't remove World of Warcraft properly. How do I check if I removed it or not and if I didn't how do I properly remove it and other files for future reference?

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Spring Cleaning
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For more information visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on removing software.

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Hi,
I have a mechanism which loads flat files into multiple tables (can be up to 6 different tables) using external tables.
Whenever a new file arrives, I need to insert duplicate rows to a side table, but the duplicate rows are to be searched in all 6 tables according to a given set of columns which exist in all of them.
In the SQL Server Version of the same mechanism (which i'm migrating to Oracle) it uses an additional "UNIQUE" table with only 2 columns(Checksum1, Checksum2) which hold the checksum values of 2 different sets of columns per inserted record. when a new file arrives it computes these 2 checksums for every record and look it up in the unique table to avoid searching all the different tables.
We know that working with checksums is not bulletproof but with those sets of fields it seems to work.
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Thanks.

>
I need to keep duplicate rows in a side table and not load them into table1...table6
>
Does that mean that you don't want ANY row if it has a duplicate on your 6 columns?
Let's say I have six records that have identical values for your 6 columns. One record meets the condition for table1, one for table2 and so on.
Do you want to keep one of these records and put the other 5 in the side table? If so, which one should be kept?
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You could delete the duplicates from the temp table as the first step. Or better
1. add a new column WHICH_TABLE NUMBER to the temp table
2. update the new column to -1 for records that are dups.
3. update the new column (might be done with one query) to set the table number based on the conditions for each table
4. INSERT INTO TABLE1 SELECT * FROM TEMP_TABLE WHERE WHICH_TABLE = 1
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2. -1 if a record was a DUP
3. 1 - if the record went to table 1 (2 for table 2 and so on)
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See this other thread (or many, many others on the net) from today for how to find and remove duplicates
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Hi folks.
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But in the documentation and also based on my experience I noticed that the
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"Thomas Christen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Hi,
Is there a way to signal the appserver to remove all stateful session
beans associated with a user when the User logs out? I would rather
not remove them using a time out mechanism.Had the same problem and solved it the following way :
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