Is it OK to delete your downloaded program files after they have been installed?

I have several years worth of downloaded program as well as other files that have already been installed and, I would like to delete them to make more space available on my HD. Is it OK to delete these files?
Thanks in advance for any help with this issue.

I used to keep the installers of most everything until - a very long time later - I finally realized that by the time I may need it again, it was outdated and I needed to download or pay for a newer version because the old one was no longer compatible with my current OS. So, I've changed it a bit and now only keep installers for which no new installers/versions are available, or if I think I may want to revert to an earlier version. The remainder now wind up in the trash immediately after the install.
Not that it matters at all, but your profile says MBP, but you said a Mac Pro (two very different machines). But, as I said, in the context of your question, it does not matter at all.

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Old discussion but probably still applies:
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quote:
Originally posted by:
Michael Hager
The problem with any boxed software is that the developers
can NEVER know how every possible customer will use the software.
That's why, as a developer, they need to make
the software have MANY more checkboxes in the options screen to
allow the user to use the software the way they need to, not the
way the developers THINK they will need to. Just look at Microsoft
as a poor example of this--I am never so frustrated as when trying
to use ANY of their Office products, which make easy tasks
difficult and do not include some of the most common options that
competing products have.
quote:
The Dreamweaver check out system actually works very well if
it’s set up properly and administered strictly. If you set it
up on your testing server with everyone set up on their work
stations correctly it will tell you who has a file locked for
editing. Once everyone is working as a team with good supervision
and division of tasks under a strict policy set by management,
Dreamweaver will work very well for your purposes. You
shouldn’t have to lock and unlock files manually since the
check in-check out function will do it for you nicely. When you are
satisfied that all is well with the site or particular pages, then
someone in a managing position can release or authorize release to
the live site.
The problem is that I am the only person using
DW in the organization, everyone else is using Frontpage...blah...
You and Murray have both alluded to a separate "testing"
server. Perhaps I can make this system work by setting up the
testing server as a duplicate of the development server in my site
manager. Then I would have to manually publish the files from the
testing server to the live production server myself. What a pain!!!
I can not believe that I am the only person in the world that has a
setup like this -- it seems very common to me. I would assume most
government organizations are set up identically as us.
<sigh>

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