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- Chris Corbyn
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I just read somewhere that GarageBand takes a lot of space and even when uninstalled there are files everywhere related to it. Uninstall GarageBand then (as root):
find /* -name '*GarageBand*' -exec rm -rvf {} \;
That'll reclaim a good 2GB or so. Also, if you don't have a printer look at removing the contents of /Library/Printers/ for another 2GB (I noticed this before anything else).
find /* -name '*GarageBand*' -exec rm -rvf {} \;
That'll reclaim a good 2GB or so. Also, if you don't have a printer look at removing the contents of /Library/Printers/ for another 2GB (I noticed this before anything else).
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Force quit.
http://www.youthtech.com/techstuff/tech ... cequit.htm
However, on OS X, it's rare that Finder will be unresponsive if an application is. So you can often simply right click the dashboard icon and force quit from that.
http://www.youthtech.com/techstuff/tech ... cequit.htm
However, on OS X, it's rare that Finder will be unresponsive if an application is. So you can often simply right click the dashboard icon and force quit from that.
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I'm considering buying a desktop mac, just to check it out. I'll probably buy it for my mom on the condition she lets me poke around on it.
I'm too partial to my pc
But the macs and mac osx is so pretty!
I'm too partial to my pc
But the macs and mac osx is so pretty!
Set Search Time - A google chrome extension. When you search only results from the past year (or set time period) are displayed. Helps tremendously when using new technologies to avoid outdated results.
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You can also save 2.2GB by removing the unused language filesd11wtq wrote:I've prodded and poked at a few systems in my giddyness to get one and it just makes me want one more. One thing that doe confuse me though is this: They ship with Tiger installed, but somehow over 20GB of disk space is already consumed by the OS and the default apps.... I still don't see what's using so much space and what is safe to free up because the /Applications folder is only about 4GB, yet /Library is over 9GB. You must be able to free a lot of that space up.
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Got it, thanks.d11wtq wrote:alt + apple + q + escole wrote:what is command-option?You can Force Quit by pressing Command-Option-Q-Esc.
Brings up the list open open windows. background tasks should be killed by the command line like in *nix.
Mac-speak refer to alt as "option" and the apple key as "command".
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I've got a linux server pc running samba (and obviously apache, PHP etc.) with a server name of "ezme". This means that I am able to type http://ezme in firefox and get straight through to apache. On my mac this doesn't work because it doesn't recognise "ezme" as 192.168.0.4 unless its got smb:// in front of it.
Ideas?
Ideas?
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