After getting my hard drive corrupted by dual boot of Linux, and having to delete everything, I decided to not use it again. With the fresh install of OSX, I inspected the partitions in Terminal and deleted most of them. However, there is a 200mb EFI partition still there. Is it safe to delete it, or will deleting it mess up my system again?
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I recently bought my mother a Macbook. It was a store display one but she had no problems with that. Anyways when we first boot it up I noticed that on the desktop there is a Time Machine disk. So I openMacintosh HD that there is only 17 gbs free out of 33 gb, so I check System Profiler to see if there is a smaller hd in there but the it says that the hd is 150 gb.
So I'm wondering how to delete the time machine partition and resize the Macintosh HD partition so I can give her the most space she can get.
Is it possible without having to reformat my whole disk aka put osx back on there again?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have done some searching, but haven't really gotten a straight answer. In my Private Folder is a Folder entitled "var." It is 4.6GB in size and I was wondering if it is safe to delete it.
Contents of Folder var:
- vm (4.06 GB)
- db (396 MB)
- folders (91.9 MB)
- tmp (40 MB)
- log (7.54 MB)
- run (832 KB)
- samba (72 KB)
- spool (32 KB)
- yp (16 KB)
- named (12 KB)
- amavis (8 KB)
- msgs (4 KB)
- agentx (0 bytes)
- root (0 bytes)
- mail (0 bytes)
- rwho (0 bytes)
- empty (0 bytes)
- backups (0 bytes)
- audit (0 bytes)
- virusmails (0 bytes)
- at (0 bytes)
- xgrid (0 bytes)
- netboot (0 bytes)
I have 33 dmg files totaling over 1 GB of space. Is it safe to delete these files or should I keep the newest one of each application in case the application doesn't start at a later date? Sorry for the basic question but since I was in the Mac Basics section.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've noticed my hard drive space slowly whittling away for no apparent reason. Having done a bit of research on the net, the topic of cache files often come up, allegedly deleting htem clears up a lot of space and allows your mac to run much faster. Is it safe to do this? I have onyx for mac, which options under cleaning do people usually check when using it? I am running snow leopard 10.6.2
View 10 Replies View RelatedBasically a repeat of this question : "Now that my tv shows are in the cloud, is it safe to delete them from my hard drive to make more room? Theoretically, I can redownload them if needed, or is it best to have a physicsl backup of them?"  The answer they got was : "iCloud is still in Beta. I would recommend that you try with one show, make a copy of it and then try out. But wait until iCloud and Lion 10.7.2 is out." However, this was in august 2011. I was wondering if iCloud is out of beta yet (i don't recall the word beta being written next to it any of the times i've seen it) and it would now be safe to do so. I'm running out of room on my hard drive so i was considering getting a time capsule to store new films, but if i can just delete tv shows my problem will be sovled for quite a while.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSo in my 'Adobe Acrobat X Pro' folder I have this app called 'Acrobat Distiller'. Google says that its used when you work with postscripts files and want to convert them to pdf. Does anyone know if Distiller is used for something else? I only work with pdf files, so I was wondering if it was safe to delete Distiller. And if I delete it, does anyone know if I will have problems when there is an update for Acrobat, maybe it will complain about missing files?
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there an easy and safe way to remove/delete completely an Admin Account in Mac OSX 10.5.6.? (I tried as root to remove the home directory of the admin I wanted off the computer but at log in his name is still there?)
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhen I first got my Mac I wanted to put the applications folder in the dock. But I copied it to the desktop first. And then I realized I didn't need to do that. So I put the folder back into the App folder. Now I want to delete them and I need to know if it's okay. Because they seem to be duplicates...but I'm not sure.
View 1 Replies View Relatedi Have over 40 gigs of files in my downloads folder (a lot of which is music) Is it safe to delete this folder? should i do something first? get an app to do it for me?
View 13 Replies View Relatedmy computer is running a bit slow. So i looked up some tips to seed up my mac. I read i had to check my system caches and if the folder was over 3GB, I had to delete it.So I went and got my system caches folder, i saw the file size was over 102GB!if there's something wrong with my computer and whether it's safe for me to delete my system cache.Â
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
So I have created a video presentation for a project I am working on using Final Cut Pro. I noticed Final Cut Pro creates a default folder in Documents called "Final Cut Pro Documents." This folder contains six additional folders:
1. Audio Render Files
2. Autosave Vault
3. Capture Scratch
4. Render Files
5. Thumbnail Cache Files
6. Waveform Cache Files
Is it safe to delete these six folders? I wouldn't otherwise care, but collectively they are taking up 25 GB on my HD. I'm not planning to delete the actual FCP project files and their attached media, but rather the above six folders which appear to be cache? Do I run any risk of losing my entire presentation if I delete these six folders, or is it simply a matter of just re rendering my project if I delete them?
I have all my photos in folders, and I guess I must have imported some of them into iPhoto a while back because I just found a 2 GB "iPhoto Library" file. I don't actually use iPhoto at all, so I'd much rather use the 2 GB for something I actually use If I deleted that file, is there a chance I'd lose actual photos? All the photos are still located in the original folders, not any special iPhoto folders.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs it safe to delete downloads from Finder after installing the app or item ....
View 3 Replies View RelatedI recently check my 150 GB hard drive and noticed that I only have 10 GTB left. While going through my files to check what I don't need or want, I noticed that I have a folder called Previous Systems. Inside this folder are two other folders with dates for names. Each folder has approximately 20 GB for a total of 40 GB. Can I simply toss this folder? It does not seem to do anything. The folder must have been created from a backup some time ago. I don't recall doing that.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to free up space, and notice that on my hard drive, under "Updates" there are several. Screen shot below. My question is this: can I delete some of them? Would the most recent update be all I need to retain?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I erased my bootcamp partition this morning thinking that was the same as deleting the partition - how do I actually delete the partition and combine it with my MAC OS partition now? I can't do it thru bootcamp
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have had my macbook for a while and I needed windows for something so I decided to try out Bootcamp. I read that you are supposed to back everything up on Time machine so I tried that. I made a partition on my disk for everything to back up to. Unfortunately I did not leave enough space and time machine stopped. I tried to delete the disk and just create a partition for Windows, But I don't know how to delete it.
View 6 Replies View Relatedhow do i go about deleting the partition parallels has created for my Windows boot?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHas anyone using only Windows deleted their MAC partition off their hard drive and only have their Windows (NTFS) one? Would it boot fine into W7?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI created a partition on my Macbook Pro to try Yosemite and now I want to delete it. Most site says to click the "-" button on partition, but I cannot do thisÂ
I also notice that the partitions seems to 'swap'. My main disk used to be 'Macintosh HD' but now the 'Trial' partition somehow moved to the top?I
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MacBook Pro
I've installed Windows XP on my iMac using bootcamp. Now, I don't really want it anymore... So, the question is how would I delete the partition without effecting my OS X partition?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI mistakenly wiped my windows partition thinking it would delete it so i could gain 5gb back to my OSX drive.
I should have used Boot camp assistant and i cant use time machine as the last time it was syncd was in November and i would then lose some important Music projects.
I have a new SSD Hybrid momentus HD in the post, but i dont want time machine to put the windows partition onto the new drive.
What options do i have, so i dont have to reinstall all my Apps and Documents etc.
I plan on installing Win 7 on my MBP but will I be able to delete and restore the partition back to my Mac installation once I'm done with it?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a new Mac book pro and am trying to migrate my dell, I have used Vmware fusion 3, and all the software available for this but there was always errors gallor. The last attemp was to use Bootcamp, got to the point where there was an error, so I attempted to delete the partition, now this is where I should not have even thought about, but I did and now I have to Reinstall the OSX, is there anybody outr there who has actually migrated there PC to their MAC without any problems.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to have as much space as possible on my drive. I have a boot camp partition set up but have decided not to use it. How do I safely delete it?
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iMac
I have an early 2006 iMac with the notorious GPU issues so after replacing it with a new Mac Mini it's time to sell the iMac for parts. I'm trying to reformat the hard drive with no success - I boot off of the original Mac OS X 10.4.4 CD, launch Disk Utility, but whenever I try to erase the disk or delete the partition the program freezes. I've even tried using GParted Live! CD to delete the partition and the same thing happens - whenever I assess it, it locks GParted as well! Funny thing is, I can still boot off of the hard drive just fine.I should mention that the hard drive has 10.5.8 installed - perhaps there's an incompatibility between Disk Utility 10.4 and the installed OS?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I converted a 500G External USB SATA hard drive from MBR to GPT no problem. It could be done using either Vista 32bit or WinXP 64bit the conversion under XP Pro SP3 32bit was not possible maybe because diskpart was still an older version and not updated to a newer version. My work on the Mac is done now and I want to convert my drive back to MBR so I can use it with windows. I've erased and then deleted all the partitions I had created on the drive. Using WinXP 32bit and Disk Management I see only one big partition (465.76 GB Healthy (GPT Protective Partition)) Using WinXP 64bit and Disk Management I can see there is a 200Mb EFI Systems Partition followed by 464.44 Gb of Unallocated space. How do I get rid of this EFI Systems Partition that is stopping me when using diskpart to convert to MBR?
My sister bought a second hand Mac Book Pro. According to Mac Book Pro specs. this unit should have had a 250G - 320G Hard Drive but someone had replaced with a 120G before she got her hands on it. My assumption then is that theywhoever it was that switched the drive must have also replaced the DVD drive at the same time as well........................
I used Boot Camp to setup a partition for installing Windows. I no longer need the partition nor Windows. How can I delete that partition and make it useful for my laptop?
I'd like to have it as just one big hard drive rather than it showing up as 2 separate hard drives. I believe it's called extend the hard drive if I'm correct.
