Need more disk memory--Deleting files

I am trying to delete and back up documents, pictures, etc. because I only have 3 Gigs of space, not enought memory to upgrade to the new operating system. I am still running on Leopard (sigh) I found a folder named, "scanner output" with all the photos I have scanned onto my computer and have either emailed to friends and family or uploaded to iphoto. Am I ok to delete these files to open up memory space? Will it delete any of the photos I have in iphoto?

If the scanner output is a separate folder, this will not do anything to your iPhoto Library.
Before arbitrarily deleting items, you have the option of either burning your data to discs, Flash drives or purchasing an external hard drive and copying or cloning your important data there.
I would save the data rather than deleting it. You never know when you might have a need to recover old data files.
Here are some of my tips for deleting or archiving data off of your internal hard drive.
You'll need to free up lots of hard drive space.
At a minimum, at least, 15 to 20 GBs of space.
Perhaps even more.
Hard drive full or near full:
Have you emptied your iMac's Trash icon in the Dock?
If you use iPhoto, iPhoto has its own trash that needs to be emptied, also.
If you use Apple Mail app, Apple Mail also has its own trash area that needs to be emptied, too!
Other things you can do to gain space.
Delete any old or no longer needed emails and/or archive older emails you want to save.
Look through your Documents folder and delete any type of old useless type files like "Read Me" type files.
Again, archive or delete any old documents you no longer use or immediately need.
Uninstall apps that you no longer use. If the app has a dedicated uninstaller, use it to completely uninstall the app. If the app has no uninstaller, then just drag it to the OS X Trash icon and empty the Trash.
Also, if you save old downloaded .dmg application installer files, you can either archive and delete these or just delete the ones you think you'll never install, again.
Download an app called OnyX for your version of OS X.
When you install and launch it, let it do its thing initially, then go to the cleaning and maintenance tabs and run all of the processes in the tabs. Let OnyX clean out all web browser cache files, web browser histories, system cache files, delete old error log files.
Typically, iTunes and iPhoto libraries are the biggest users of HD space.
If you have any other large folders of personal data or projects, these should be thinned out, moved, also, to the external hard drive and then either archived to disc and/or deleted off your internal hard drive.
You may have to Purchase an external FireWire or Thunderbolt hard drive to move these files/data off of your internal drive to the external hard drive and deleted off of the internal hard drive.
Good Luck!

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First, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
Use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one.
Proceed further only if the problem hasn't been solved.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
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NOTE: This method will erase any and all backups iTunes has made of your iPhone from your computer. It should not erase the data on your iPhone, just the backup files that iTunes creates on your computer.
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Hi - Double posting doesn't help - Medicine the same
iDVD and Mac OS need space to work to swap theirs temp. files.
My minimum is 25Gb free space on start-up hard disk - neither can use any other HDs
but only 2.458 GB is available at "Macintosh HD"
This is way to little - few things should be able to work and if so very slow and unstable.
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Lets assume that instances A & instance B is unable to communicate with each other. Now, this might be due the fact that the other instance is actually down oR because there is some problem with the interconnect communication between the instances.
A split-brain occurs when the instances cannot speak to each other due to interconnect communication problem and each instance happens to think that it's the only surviving instance and starts updating the database. This obviously is problematic, isn't it?
To avoid split brain, both instances are required to update the voting disk periodically.
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case 1) instance B is actually down:- Here, looking from instance A's perspective; there is no communication over the interconnect with instance B and also instance B is not updating the voting disk ('coz it's down). Instance A can safely assume that instance B is down and it can go on providing the services and updating the database.
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Hi
Can someone advise me on how to create a script to delete certain files from a users home account at logout?
The files that I want deleting are .plist files in there ~/lib.../preferences folder, this is so I can ensure that all users will have the same settings for certain files next time they login again.
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That being said, if you you still really want to do this you can create a logout hook and write a shell script to remove the files. See "About Daemons and Services", Appendix B on writing a logout hook.
But a far easier way is to create Account's login item that will cause a shell script to be launched to delete the files. You can encapsulate the shell script so it runs as an application that can be added to the Login Items. One such encapsulator is Platypus.
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I am running out of disk space on my 20" 2GHz Intel iMac. I'm thinking upgrading the internal disk will result in much better performance than adding an external drive (I currently have an external drive used only for Time Machine). What advice do you have regarding these two approaches? I've read about replacing the internal disk and it looks to be fairly difficult. Also, how difficult is it to format the new drive and install OS X? Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

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Option 1
Cracking open an iMac is not for the technically challenged or faint of heart, they were not designed to be user serviceable. Should you choose to except the challenge and change the Internal HD yourself the following links are a must have, save, print and study then well!
http://www.baconeggs.co.uk/images/dmm/iMacEarly_200620.pdf
http://home.comcast.net/~woojo/DFFA53A0-F23D-4541-9015-481FD3B6532E/iMac_Disasse mbly.html
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Option 2
Take the iMac to your Local Apple Service Provider and have then install a larger HD and Transfer the content of your current Internal HD to it. Then take the replaced HD and install it into an External HD Enclosure for backup and storage use.
Option 3
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Option 4
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449?viewlocale=en_US
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1229?viewlocale=en_US
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Virtual Lab
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See Lion's Storage Display.
You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
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Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
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That means the hard drive of your computer is full, and you don't have enough free space on your computer, to do what you are trying to do.
You need to clear up space on your computer.
If you hard drive is full, check the following places to ensure they are not holding unwanted data.
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- if you use iPhoto, your trash in iPhoto - launch iPhoto, and select trash in the left hand column. iPhoto has it's own trash, and is often overlooked
- your download folder - finder / home user / downloads - every time you download something, it stores it here. This is often overlooked as well
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