Many of the functions performed by this Registry-like tool have been incorporated into the far tidier Directory Utility tool.
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Plus if it helps remember that for this money you are reclaiming storage space, so it could be argued $13 is a very small price to pay when your laptop's hard drive cannot be replaced and external USB drives look ugly.Īpple have pleased a number of people by laying to rest the NetInfo Manager in OSX 10.5 'Leopard'.
Whilst this application does cost a handful of dollars (US$12.95) it has a great interface and keeps a 'blacklist' of applications that experience issues when they are placed on a diet, for example Skype. Fortunately there are a few tools out there that can do the job for you, my favourite being Xslimmer. Now whilst it is possible to do this task manually it is hardly fun or a good use of one's time. So if like me you only understand English, removing superfluous languages and binaries will free gigabytes. Not only is multiple language support installed by default, but most applications come with both x86 and PowerPC binary files. This dilemma is not helped by OSX 10.5 Leopard's installation bloat. These days disk space is not a huge problem, but on a MacBook Air it can get a little tight once all your applications and media libraries are installed.