Save your carlface shit. Thanks. Question: It appears that a shit ton of my macs memory is used by various applications so I want to know, and I FREELY ADMIT ignorance on the subject here....but can I treat applications like anything else and keep them on an external drive (I realize I can only use those apps when the drive is connected)? Would I simply just drag over the program? It doesn't seem right to me but I don't know...

If you are going to tell me how fucking stupid I am etc....stfu because you're now you'll just be announcing yourself as more stupid for pointing out something that I already said.

Thanks

9/18/2009 2:54:18 PM

hahaha m2c i just gotta lol at your preemptive defensive stance

by memory do you mean RAM (like your computer is running slow) or do you mean storage like a hard drive?

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9/18/2009 2:56:36 PM

Are we talking about memory or hard drive space?

Most applications need to be installed on the boot drive

9/18/2009 2:56:45 PM

you could always do a symlink of /dev/externaldrive to /bin/somethingorother or put something in fstab (I ASSume macs use fstab)

9/18/2009 3:11:14 PM

just preparing myself

It's not that it's running slow, but rather that I'm continually getting 'start up disk' full messages when I have hardly anything open and I can only assume it has SOMETHING to do with


and actually I just went and looked now and I guess the apps isn't what's taking up space....but I can't seem to see what is..... The only thing I can think of is that in my 'Library' there is shit that I don't need or duplicates of something....I don't know....I assume that's just another way of organizing already existing files?

9/18/2009 3:21:31 PM

try this app to see what's taking up space

http://www.derlien.com/

9/18/2009 3:23:19 PM

hook up an external drive then make a directory on it called library
then copy everything that's in /home/lauren/library (or whatever your account name is) to that directory

cp /home/lauren/library /mnt/whateveryoumountthenewdriveas/library

ln -s /mnt/whateveryoumounthenewdriveas /home/lauren/library

9/18/2009 3:27:56 PM

fuck that noise. just get a bigger internal drive

9/18/2009 3:29:04 PM

well I'm running that program now qtnm....it's taking quite some time and I'm surprised it even worked as I thought for sure I'd get a 'start up disk' warning.

As for smooth crim....OMG HOW'D YOU KNOW WHAT MY DIRECTORY WAS?! But that looks complicated...and scary

9/18/2009 3:36:41 PM

hmmmmmmm

9/18/2009 3:44:09 PM

That is one tiny hard drive

9/18/2009 4:10:58 PM

^I just threw away a perfectly good IDE 4gb hard drive yesterday and a ~60gb IDE Raptor drive while cleaning out the closet

9/18/2009 4:48:02 PM

it's 2 bash commands, shouldn't be too tough. the rest is point and click.

9/18/2009 4:53:37 PM

^you might want to explain to her what 2 bash commands even are...sounds like she may not know.

Simple to you != simple to everyone.

9/18/2009 5:04:34 PM

damn, I guess that line never got that part into the post. open your finder thing, then under applications (I think under utilities) there's an app called terminal. open that and type those commands there, provided you did all the other prerequisite stuff like get a drive, plug it in, format and mount it ( I think osx does this for you)

9/18/2009 5:23:47 PM

I would suggest this instead:

http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

It will let you know specifically what files are taking up a lot of space, and provide the directory for those files. My sister had a problem on her Mac one time where somehow an old crash log file was consuming something like 20 GB of space.

9/18/2009 11:21:56 PM

Question......are log crash files meant for the trash? I downloaded that first program and it certainly helped me isolate, but then I'm stuck trying to figure out if a file is needed...or just wasting space like it did to your sis?

9/19/2009 12:03:24 AM

What you really need is this.

http://www.macpaw.com/cleanmymac

you will free up gigs of space in minutes. All those temp files, logs, language support etc gone. I've used it and love it!

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9/19/2009 10:49:34 AM

^^It is just a log of what happened. If you have some 20 GB file that is not a media file, it is 99.9% safe to say that you could dispose of it without affecting anything.

9/20/2009 6:23:33 PM