IBook Hard drive 3/4 full, what can be deleted?

Question

Hi,
My daughter is trying to figure out what she can delete from her Home Library to free up space on the HD of her iBook G4 (Mac OS 10.4.11). For example, does she need the Crash logs in her Library home folder(~Library/Logs/Crash Reporter)? What about the Icons and Caches folder in the Home folder? Does anything bad happen if you delete these?
I am kind of wondering, myself. Maybe if that stuff is unnecessary, I would delete it, also.
TIA!

Answer 1

Monolingual is a program for removing unnecessary language resources from Mac OS X,in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space. It requires at least Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) and also works on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). It worked for me on 10.4
http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/
A detailed write-up on how to use Monolingual:
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/monolingual.html
These pages have some hints on freeing up space:
http://thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html
http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html
WhatSize is a simple tool that allows the user to quickly measure the size in bytes of a given folder and all subfolders and files within it. You would be surprised at to how many useless files might be laying around on your hard disks. The files and folders are automatically sorted by size, with the biggest sizes first. Note: WhatSize displays only files accessible by the current user. See:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13006/
Yasu is a “Universal Binary” Macintosh utility that performs maintenance routines and clears the many cache files used by OS X. Yasu was designed to be a simple, first line of attack for a workstation that has started “acting up.” More often than not, a thorough purge of the cache files of a Mac will bring its behavior back into line.
http://jimmitchell.org/projects/yasu/
OnyX allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure certain hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Safari, Dashboard, Expose, Disk Utility... to delete cache, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, to see the detailed info of your configuration, to preview the different logs and CrashReporter reports, and more.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20070
You can use the terminal find command enter below to display all files greater then 25meg.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
sudo find -x / -size +51200 -exec ls -lh {} \;
I assume that you have logged on as an administrator. Enter your logon password.
The -x / combination says to search all files on the startup partition. The +51200 says to select all files greater than 51200 blocks of 512 length which is 25meg. The -exec indicates which comman to run on a selected file. The {} is the filename of the selected file.