Too much "stuff" to install Leopard

I've backup my iPhoto Library & iTunes library to external HD. Now I delete both from my HD? Then after Leopard is installed, I drag both of them from the external HD to MacBook Pro HD? Just being extra cautious!

Select the disk in the Finder and choose Get Info from the File menu; if the disk's format is listed as Mac OS Extended, you can simply delete the folders from the hard disk prior to installing Mac OS X 10.5. You may want to use the instructions here and here to keep the iTunes and iPhoto libraries on that drive; if you don't have enough free space on the original drive to install Mac OS X 10.5 you probably won't have enough to effectively use it.
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Well I just bought this macbook (first mac!) and i installed leopard first thing after I got to my tiger desktop. The thing is, I only have around 85GB left on my 120GB hard drive. Im thinking that it didn't delete tiger and just installed Leopard on the hard drive also? Anyway to delete it? Thanks!

Syrus, I have not yet purchased Leopard so I’m not knowledgeable about how much space it might take on your drive. The archive & install was the first (and only) thing that came to mind.
A couple of thoughts and then I’ll let someone with more experience try to help:
1. How much free space was used on your hard drive when you had Tiger on it? Since a 120GB drive will actually show about 111GB of free space when empty. Look in your iTunes folder and see what size that is. (My iTunes library won’t even fit on my MBP drive.) Also, iLife ’08 has a GB or 2 of sounds for Garage Band.
2. Since it’s a new Mac you, have 90 days of free tech support. Call the Apple technical support number and ask them.
That’s about all I can offer. I expect Apple or other posters should be able to help.
Again, best of luck.

The spinning "wheel of death" does NOT go away! I've loaded too much stuff on my computer (including the entire Adobe CS6 software) and I want to delete everything on my macbook pro and start over? How do I clean everything up without buying MacKeeper?

I use my MacBook Pro (Late 2009) for EVERYTHING and I have loaded so many apps, even doubles of some, I think!   My computer is running really SLOW and I think it is because I don't have enough memory.
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I want to clean up my computer and get rid of EVERYTHING on it!!     Then, re-install the factory settings to run Lion. I believe this will make the wheel stop spinning.
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I am hoping the computer wizards or the apple team can give me an answer on how to clean up everything and start over. I have saved everything on my desktop mac.

Thank you so much for the help! I had heard bad things about MacKeeper and I don't want to screw up my macbook any more than it already is! I will do as you suggest. Do you believe this is the best solution for the problem I described?
Should I load my Adobe Creative Suite 6 (in the cloud version) on an external hard drive?
I am so tired of this spinning wheel....should I avoid putting the CS6 on my macbook pro altogether?
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*Adding new items/removing orphans*
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Thanks, Ann, that's a great article, very helpful to a veteran Windows user like me, who isn't used to RAM being managed this way by the OS.
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Too Much Stuff

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I am perplexed at having two fully functional Ps CS5 programs, one for 32 bit and another for 64. I have looked in the control panel for a way to uninstall the 32 bit version but it only offers to uninstall the entire suite.
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How do I do this? Thanks in advance, Dale

Oops, I meant to type the word UNinstall just after the word "don't". I got it backwards. I meant to say "...don't uninstall the 32 bit version..."
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Won't start properly because of too much stuff on desktop - how do I delete stuff if it won't start up now?

I was trying to move photos to an external hard drive because my startup disk was full and I accidentally dropped them onto the desktop. Now my computer won't start properly because of all the stuff on the desktop and I don't know how I can fix that?

Start up in safe mode. Hold the Shift key while your Mac is starting and check that you can start up in safe mode. Then, choose all the items you want to transfer in Desktop by pressing Command and A keys, and move them to the external drive.
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I think I've just messed too much with my install

Hi
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drcouzelis wrote:
I don't think it would be hard to use the Arch Linux install CD, do a live boot, "chroot", and then use pacman as usual.
I think that makes sense. Doesn't it?
Wouldn't it be the same problem then?
I mean, if you chroot to the install, xz-utils will still be missing. Or does pacman use the stick's binaries also from within chroot?

Too much stuff in "other"?

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Office 2010 downloads too much stuff to users' roaming profiles, making it go over the 30MB size limit

Hey, we recently rolled out to Office 2010 at my workplace.
On the student segment we've activated the 30MB roaming profile size limit, and we've found that a bunch of students have had trouble with this now because Office 2010 seems to download around 8MB of files to %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Templates\LiveContent, which
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Supported On: At least Windows 2000
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Note: When excluding content from the profile you should try to exclude the narrowest set of data that will address your needs.
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excluded.
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Don
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3000 old emails back to 2009 came along for the ride when I transferred aol address book to Mac address book. All attempts to delete en masse have no results. Too much stuff. Procedures?

3000 old emails, some as far back as 2009, came along for the ride when I transferred aol address book to imac address book. Can't find the magic key to permanently delete them. Ideas on procedures?

I'd try deleting 50 at a time - 3000 is a stretch.
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Answer: too much stuff?

That is what Lyle Lovett said to Delbert Mcklinton - John Prine; so that may be the answer here with this thing stuck behind the old banjo and reverbs.
Intel chip Macbook: Logic current v.
What's going on: the environment is behaving badly. After a successful couple of runs at the setup manager - it recognizes the MIDI devices fine - but the environment doesn't at all in the program itself.
So it's not AMS, and the M-Audio driver is Intel compat.
It's not just a simple matter of adding a multi-inst. either because the Ozonic controller has specific ports (internal/external software routed MIDI). Ports which Logic recognizes easily on the PPC's, but not on the Macbook.
Here I'm getting nothing but the premapped drums and gen. MIDI device (yes I tried setting up a multi-inst. and it didn't give me the correct I/O).
So where shall I stick this dilemna other than the closet?
muZAK back
PMacG5 2.Ghz iBookg4 1.42 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 2.5mem Singin'ShureLynx16x M-AOzonicProKeys88Motu896ARTubesGolden FCS-Lp 7.2.☮

Muzak,
Good to see you back! FWIW, Logic 7 for PPC never did a good job at translating the devices defined in the AMS setup into Logic's environment. I found that I had to go through the motions twice (setup manager 2x). And it only added to the fun when I found that all of my multi-instruments had pre-programmed program changes. Who defined them? 'Twasn't me... It was AMS! Nice!
Not.
Man, in the old days of OS 9, Logic 2, 3, & 4 running under OMS, all you had to do was revise your OMS setup, select "update" in the environment, and blammo, your devices were all updated in the MIDI layer. It was so easy! These days it's one step forward and one step back because this ßchies (sp? sonther?) isn't beta-tested well enough. But I digress.
My best advice to you would be to totally dispense with AMS altogether. It'll recognize your USB-based MIDI interface(s) and they'll show up in the environment (provided the interface's drivers are good). Otherwise, define nothing in AMS. Instead, go through the Neaderthanlian exercise of defining your MIDI devices from scratch in the environment. Even though doing this is like rubbing two sticks together just to get a light for your smoke, you're spared the hassle of having AMS and/or Logic screw it up for you.

Time machine - backing up too much stuff

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Then if I start a backup via Time Machine, I end-up with 100Gb+ files to be saved!!!
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Yvon
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