Is there an easy way to free up memory without deleting important files?

I am trying to free up memory on my MacBook without deleting important files. I'm not sure which files I can delete permanently without interfering with the operating system or applications. Any advice?

You can delete any document files you've stored in the Documents, Downloads, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites folders located within your Home folder. Or you can replace the hard drive with a larger drive or offload documents to an external storage drive then delete from the internal drive.

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Exec and libs               34059               133    3%
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I made several movies using symbols and motion twens and now wish to save these as an flv to play in a web browser.
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:48:11 -0700
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To: [email protected]
Subject: I am trying to convert a .fla file to an .flv file, is there an easy way to achieve this.
No worries, that is very simple to do.
Just click on File--> Save As and select your "File Type" and select as "Flv."
Let me know how it goes and if you have any questions regarding Flash, please feel free to ask me here or sending me an email.
Hope this helps,
Vicente Tulliano
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MWong on the iWeb forums is where I got the instructions.
http://www.rowan-cottage.co.uk/Site/Articles.html
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Michael's instructions are as step-by-step as it gets. Basically, all of this "special" stuff is the same. iWeb can't do it directly, so we have to go into the html files that iWeb outputs and make changes to it. The deal here is that everytime you subsequently change that file in iWeb, iWeb will save a new copy of that file without your previously added "special" modifications. So it is necessary to repeat the process again.
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