[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":157},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog:2007:freeing-up-disk-space-on-mac-os-x":3,"blogMore-Technology":143,"comments-freeing-up-disk-space-on-mac-os-x":156},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"category":123,"commentCount":124,"date":125,"description":12,"excerpt":126,"extension":127,"filenames":128,"hidden":129,"image":128,"meta":130,"minutes":117,"navigation":131,"path":132,"seo":133,"showCategory":128,"stem":134,"tags":135,"updated":128,"url":140,"wordCount":141,"__hash__":142},"content\u002Fblog\u002F2007\u002Ffreeing-up-disk-space-on-mac-os-x.md","Freeing up disk space on Mac OS X",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":115},"minimark",[9,13,18,28,32,35,43,46,50,53,75,78,89,93,104,107,110],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Space was a little tight (5GB) after my upgrade to Leopard and so I went on the hunt to free up space and ended up freeing almost 20GB of my 100GB disk, enough to let me set-up a new 20GB Boot Camp partition that will host Vista and take over from my XP Pro Parallels image with any luck.",[14,15,17],"h2",{"id":16},"large-forgotten-files","Large forgotten files",[10,19,20,27],{},[21,22,26],"a",{"href":23,"rel":24},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.derlien.com",[25],"nofollow","Disk Inventory X"," helps identify large files on your system which may no longer be required. In my case 8GB of imported iMovie clips, a 4GB Parallels backup HD image and a 140MB download of Boot Camp 1.4. A few blank DVD-R’s later and I’m almost 13GB lighter.",[14,29,31],{"id":30},"unnecessary-languages-platforms","Unnecessary languages & platforms",[10,33,34],{},"I had previously removed the unused foreign languages and binary support using a mix of tools that was time consuming but obviously the Leopard upgrade has replaced all that.",[10,36,37,42],{},[21,38,41],{"href":39,"rel":40},"https:\u002F\u002Fmonolingual.sourceforge.net\u002F",[25],"Monolingual"," can remove both languages and binaries in a single sweep although it does take a good few minutes to run. Despite electing to keep English, English (UK), French and German for now as well as keeping the Intel and Intel 64-bit binaries I managed to claw back another 1.9GB of disk space. 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