Finding more space on HD

My MBPro has Leopard and Windows XP via Boot Camp. The 160GB drive is partitioned in half between the two systems. I am running out of HD space on the Mac side. I noticed that there are two library folders, one in the root and one in my user account. Both are fairly big and seem to have some duplication of subfolders and files. Can anything be safely deleted to free up HD space?

drew:
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
The advice to leave the Libraries alone is sound, although there may be conditions under which there may be log files, printer drivers etc that may be deleted. However, I suspect that will not be sufficient space to make a difference. Dr. Smoke's FAQ Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk has ideas of some of your options. Running Disk Inventory or What Size will give you an idea of what is on the HDD, but you still have to decide where to go from there. So, what are your options?
• Install a larger HDD that will give you adequate space for both of the Operating Systems.
• Adjust the size of your Windows partition to give you more space for OS X.
• Move some of you stuff to an external HDD.
Of the three choices the best is the first. The others are more or less temporary measures that will buy some time, but probably not for long.
cornelius

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