IBook G4 4months old and the Disk if Fullq
Can someone help me? I have a brand new iBook G4, it's now four months old and the disk is full. When I 'Get Info' on my Start up it says 37.14G used and 10.7 available....! When I go to Home 21.6G's used...doh! I know most of this is my itunes....17.6g but I don't know what else is on here....I use this mostly for surfing and iTunes...I do have pics 256mb...so not so much...
What is the problem...I don't understand...I can't even get mail on this computer...ugh!
Is this a 60G? Even so, I don't know what is using all this space...I checked the permissions and that's all good...as far as I can see.
Any help would be great.
Thanks.
jules
Hi JulesQ,
You say: "Now doing the what size is it...it's giving me a hard time and only showing my HD size...nothing else."
Don't bother downloading it again, it's doing what it should. You need to select the hard drive in the left hand box for WhatSize to start calculating. It will take a couple of minutes to calculate everything after you have selected the HD.
As you have trashed GarageBand you can also trash the audio loops associated with it. They are in /Library/Application Support or /Library/Audio.
As John advises, you can safely remove unwanted printer drivers.
Printer drivers are in the HD/Library/Printers folder. You can safely delete any named drivers that you don't have a printer for. For example, if you have a Canon, you can remove Epson, Lexmark, Hewlett Packard & Brother drivers. Epson alone takes up close to 1gb. You can even remove specific drivers from within the manufacturer's folder. For example, if you have an Epson C86 you can safely trash any other specific drivers in the Epson folder like C46, C66 etc. If, at a later date, you buy a printer whose driver you removed they can be added from your install disk, the disk that comes with the printer or downloaded.
Check, too, in your music folder. It is possible that you have, say, 'xyz song' in the first level of your Music folder and the same song in Music/iTunes/iTunes Library. If you are sure that you do have 'xyz song' in iTunes, it is safe to delete from 'Music'. The same principle can apply to your Pictures folder and iPhoto Library, but staying with iTunes for a moment, with iTunes open select Edit in the menu bar, then 'Show duplicate songs'. You can trash duplicates if you are sure that they are true duplicates, i.e. exact name, artist and file size.
It is also possible that you have music in your 'Shared' folder that is duplicated in iTunes.
As my iBook only has a combo drive and I'm not into video editing anyway I have trashed iDVD & iMovie. (Not DVD player). I have also trashed preloaded games and World Book, and its associated files.
Try again with Whatsize and post the report. Don't worry, it'll get sorted
Adrian
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