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I am getting rid of un-necessary junk on the hd. And was wondering
about the receipts that are in the libraries folder. Some of them take
up lots of space. WIll any harm happen if I toss them away.

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On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 23:26:25 -0500, henree21@yahoo.com wrote
(in article <1144556785.172063.7830@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>):

I am getting rid of un-necessary junk on the hd. And was wondering
about the receipts that are in the libraries folder. Some of them take
up lots of space. WIll any harm happen if I toss them away.

The receipts are what Software Update checks in order to determine what updates are needed.


--
James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com

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Entity TaliesinSoft uttered this profundity:

I am getting rid of un-necessary junk on the hd. And was wondering
about the receipts that are in the libraries folder. Some of them take
up lots of space. WIll any harm happen if I toss them away.

The receipts are what Software Update checks in order to determine what updates are needed.

You should only trash receipts if you have uninstalled the app and/or never plan on updating it.

-- Gnarlie
http://Gnarlodious.com/

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In article <0001HW.C05DFB470013EE6FF0284530@news.supernews.com>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:

On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 23:26:25 -0500, henree21@yahoo.com wrote
(in article <1144556785.172063.7830@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>):

I am getting rid of un-necessary junk on the hd. And was wondering
about the receipts that are in the libraries folder. Some of them take
up lots of space. WIll any harm happen if I toss them away.

The receipts are what Software Update checks in order to determine what updates are needed.

And some of them are referenced by the Disk Utility "repair permissions" process.

--
"Congurutulation!!!" - The subject line on some spam I received recently.
I have no idea what it means, but it's such a cool "word" (by which I mean pronouncable sequence of letters) regardless.
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On 2006-04-09 14:40:32 +0300, Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com> said:

In article <0001HW.C05DFB470013EE6FF0284530@news.supernews.com>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:

On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 23:26:25 -0500, henree21@yahoo.com wrote
(in article <1144556785.172063.7830@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>):

I am getting rid of un-necessary junk on the hd. And was wondering
about the receipts that are in the libraries folder. Some of them take
up lots of space. WIll any harm happen if I toss them away.

The receipts are what Software Update checks in order to determine what
updates are needed.

And some of them are referenced by the Disk Utility "repair
permissions" process.

Also based on "omni disksweeper", Library/receipts on "hundreds of
software, updates installed" system like mine, is only 62.6 MB

I know it is unscientific but you gotta see my "versiontracker pro"
software listing :)

Not worth the hassle.

In fact, as a general rule (telling to OP), you shouldn't touch
anything in /Library , /System except caches (if they are broken)

Ilgaz

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In article <1144556785.172063.7830@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, henree21@yahoo.com wrote:

I am getting rid of un-necessary junk on the hd. And was wondering
about the receipts that are in the libraries folder. Some of them take
up lots of space. WIll any harm happen if I toss them away.

You can toss them but, as others have said, your system will lose track of update status. If you
made the standard install, you can gain some space by deleting lproj files for languages that
you don't use. They are named with a nationality.lproj and are part of an application. They are
not large but there are about 70,000 of them for the stock 10.2.8 install (I have an old machine
:-). I don't recall the exact number but it seemed very large at the time; about half of all the
files installed. You can also delete iApps and other apps that you don't use. A MB here, a MB
there pretty some you've got a GB. You have to keep after them though as updates will re-install
some of them.

636 non English.lproj or other English sounding (en, au) files that have found there way onto my
HD since the last time I removed them amounted to 30.6MB.

If the ratio holds, 70,000 of these files will amount to about 3GB (Which seems like a lot more
than what I think I remember from the first time I cleared them out).

--
Fred Lotte
flotte@nospam.stratos.net
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In article <flotte-E7E770.22222610042006@sn-ip.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
Fred Lotte <flotte@nospam.stratos.net> wrote:

636 non English.lproj or other English sounding (en, au) files that have found there way onto my
HD since the last time I removed them amounted to 30.6MB.

Monolingual, at sourceforge.net, can delete unused language files.

--
John Rethorst
jrethorst at post dot com
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John Rethorst wrote:

In article <flotte-E7E770.22222610042006@sn-ip.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
Fred Lotte <flotte@nospam.stratos.net> wrote:

636 non English.lproj or other English sounding (en, au) files that have found there way onto my
HD since the last time I removed them amounted to 30.6MB.

Monolingual, at sourceforge.net, can delete unused language files.

--
John Rethorst
jrethorst at post dot com

Where do I find these files?

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I just found that in the library. The caches folder takes up 784 mb of
space. What doesn't add up, is the fact that If i check the size of the
folders inside the cache folder. It doesn't come close to 784 mb. I am
on a old imac, with 10 gigs of space. And I am desperately trying to
free up space.

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On 2006-04-11 08:32:23 +0300, henree21@yahoo.com said:

I just found that in the library. The caches folder takes up 784 mb of
space. What doesn't add up, is the fact that If i check the size of the folders inside the cache folder. It doesn't come close to 784 mb. I am
on a old imac, with 10 gigs of space. And I am desperately trying to
free up space.

Hi,

OK, there are more than 30 titles but I suggest "YASU" since I have
used it without any problems. It is freeware, small, just select "all
options" and run. Remember pick the right version for your OS X version
from drop down list:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21674

Also here is "Monolingual" which I used very successfully too. To
remove the "real junk", languages you don't know :) http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7758

These are freeware.

A very cheap Shareware to clean up the "temp files", "remove
unneccesarry languages" and run (enhanced) OS X scripts is Macaroni,
coded by Tom Harrington who is frequent in these newsgroups but he
doesn't like to advertise :)

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9633

Why it matters is: It is automatic, you won't even know/have to care it
is running. You will even forget you installed it but it will function.

Have a nice day

Ilgaz
ps: I repeat, don't remove receipts

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In article <1144732861.212732.283740@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, henree21@yahoo.com wrote:

John Rethorst wrote:

In article <flotte-E7E770.22222610042006@sn-ip.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
Fred Lotte <flotte@nospam.stratos.net> wrote:

636 non English.lproj or other English sounding (en, au) files that have found there way onto my
HD since the last time I removed them amounted to 30.6MB.

Monolingual, at sourceforge.net, can delete unused language files.

--
John Rethorst
jrethorst at post dot com

Where do I find these files?

I found my notes from one of the times I removed the non-English lproj files. There were 71,792
of them (probably 71,792 items that make up a lesser number of lproj files) in the regular
installation of OSX 10.2.0 (I think it was 0). They occupied 381.3MB. I also eliminated 23,472
Printer driver 'items' which occupied 468.7MB. Acrobat Reader 5.0 (I use 6) was 551 items for
77.4MB. (What does Adobe need 77MB for in a glorified text & picture reader?) Internet Exploder
was 1432 items for 23.6MB. (Same question, iCab is about 3MB) iApps I don't use were 132.3MB and
an extra copy of Asian Text Extras was 2.6MB (I don't know where it came from). In all, I
regained 1085.9MB of disk space. Since my old 'Beige' G3 requires OSX be in the first 8GB
partition on the disk, this is valuable disk space. Since that time, I've learned to use custom
install to limit the extra stuff when I install a system.

The lproj files are in the 'Contents' inside an application bundle. I was able to boot into OS 9
(on a separate partition, NOT classic) and use File Buddy to find all the lproj files. It's
harder in OSX since the system claims ownership of most of the files. Most of the others are
self contained but they will spread stuff around your home directory, and some other places,
once you run them.

--
Fred Lotte
flotte@nospam.stratos.net
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