Lately, I’ve been on a kick to free up HD space on my Mac. You’d be surprised how quickly a 30gig HD can fill up. I remember when I felt guilty installing a 10mb game on my Dad’s computer.. so sad.

Anyways, my quest to free up space has so consisted of:

1. Deleting old Preference Files (in the Library Folder). HD savings = 50-60megs

2. Deleting extraneous language files (I don’t use programs in Cyrillic. HD savings = 950megs(!!)

3. Using Omnidisksweeper to hunt out old/weird files. HD savings (so far) = ~300megs

My conclusion from cleaning out my HD is that applications are sloppy. Uninstallers typically leave files or entire folders in your HD. There’s lots of junk that gets created just from light-medium computer usage. I don’t consider myself a power user, I just surf the Internet and watch Anime Fansubs. So if you use alot of programs, there’s a good chance that you have alot more junk than the 1.5GB’s of stuff that I found/deleted.

My second conclusion is that external Hard Drives are awesome things and I must have one.

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