Removing Upper Library Files

Trying to free up space on my 40GB internal drive, I moved Garage Band and iDvd from Applications to Trash.
I also found 3GB in the Upper Library > Application Support > Garage Band and > iDvd. Can I remove these files from the upper library by just moving to Trash? I'm a little nervous poking around so high in the architecture. Thanks in advance.

I think we're on the same page. In my Finder column view I see MacIntosh Hard Drive / Library / Application Support / iDVD and / Garage Band.
There's then no problem moving these iDVD and Garage Band files to the Trash and dumping them along with the other two files you were kind enough to identify for me. Sounds easy enough. I get a little nervous moving files upstream from the Home folder, and didn't want to screw up my computer.
Thanks so much for the help.

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Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
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<...>
Now I come to find that Aperture wants to copy all
the photos I have it index (ideally all of them) into
a single library file. Is this correct? Is there
any way to prevent it from doing this and just
accessing them in the directory structure I have
already painstakingly setup over the last 6 years (I
realize I can sort of rebuild the structure in
Aperture but don't want them stored in the lib
file)?
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Then if you explore the Aperture library using Finder (right click on the aperture library and select "See Package Contents") you will see all of your directories there - the .approject files down inside these directories are also packages that you can look inside of, though it's a little different in there as your master files are inside import directories and each has it's own directory.
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I am asking for 2 main reasons:
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You can't use Aperture in that way. When using Aperture (or Lightroom) once you import an image there is only a "virtual image". It's not a real image until you export into some real format of your choice.
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You do not need 2x the space, because once imported you simply remove the masters - remember they are just sitting there inside the Aperture library directory. And Aperture will save space if you are using RAW files because it does not need to store a TIFF or PSD until you are actually ready to use the image, instead of having to create rendered files every time you edit.
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That really depends on if you can live with the exporting requirement, personally I find Aperture far more useful than iPhoto. Try out the comparison tools and look at some of the tutorials before you part with it. I have not found the exporting requirement to restrictive and it lets you choose any format you like at the point you need it, instead of having to decide formats before you've really even started editing.

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