I'm running out of disk space on my PB

[FFTT]

A custom lean install of OSX is the easiest way to free up HD space, but
you would have to have complete back-ups of everything important
before doing so.

The default OSX install is 12.5 GB
You can easily and safely cut that down to 7.4 GB and less if you are willing to remove completely unused applications.

A few minor things you can do to free up some space without reformatting.

Search your HD for "packages"
There you will find the .pkg installers for all your OS updates.

Burn those to CD and save them in the event you need to reformat.

You have a large assortment of extra printer drivers, language translators, iWork and MS Office demos, GarageBand Demo songs, iDVD themes.

This is all completely unnecessary fluff that a custom lean install would remove.

Download Tiger Cache Cleaner from VersionTracker.
The demo works fine to clear out all your cache buildup.

You might also consider offsight back-up space allowing you to access all your data anywhere you go as needed.

This would allow you to keep your entire audio library on a remote server
and is probably your best and safest solution.

 

[gman71882]

I've been thinking about getting this drive as an upgrade, but was also thinking about a 7200RPM 120Gb drive. I'm not sure if my current drive is 5400 or 7200. If it's 5400, then I'll probably get the 160Gb drive, because I don't think I'll notice the speed increase as much as I'll appreciate all that space. On the otherhand if I currently have a 7200 (which I doubt I do) and don't think I want to purchase a 5400 drive. I couldn't find anything listed in the System Profiler. Thoughts?

The great thing about the New Seagate is that it uses Perpendicular recording technology. It uses about 10-20% less power so it can help Battery Power on the entire Notebook system.

 

[gman71882]

Yeah... that's quite true. I am holding out for a widescreen, touchscreen iPod. Hopefully someday

I back the ipod notion... thats a better use of money for 60GB of fun.
can take the music everywhere and use the external for backup.

 

[karttikeya]

1) Geez, stop pirating music.

I don't care who you are, nobody has 40gb of legitimate tunes. Nobody.


Well ... I have more than 700 ORIGINAL CDs in my personal collection, and so far I have bought more than 500 tracks in the iTunes Store. As someone else has already answered to you, some of us do like to pay for what we use. Do you ?

 

[xPismo]

The great thing about the New Seagate is that it uses Perpendicular recording technology. It uses about 10-20% less power so it can help Battery Power on the entire Notebook system.

Oh really?!?

I'm not one to derail a thread (I say the iPod as your main storage system looks like the best bet... although backing it up as well as your PB is a bummer) but Woah! I'd be down for a low cost version in the near to 100Gb region.

I must look into this.

 

[howesey]

1) Geez, stop pirating music.

I don't care who you are, nobody has 40gb of legitimate tunes. Nobody.

2) You don't need all your music everywhere. A laptop is small for a reason, don't believe all that fad about how laptops are replacing desktops yada yada, I have a 2TB Raid 5 drive array under my desk, last I checked there isn't even a RAID solution for any portable to date

I'll let you have kittens now, I have just over 1TB of music. Oh, and it's all legal.

 

[Diatribe]

1) Geez, stop pirating music.

I don't care who you are, nobody has 40gb of legitimate tunes. Nobody.

2) You don't need all your music everywhere. A laptop is small for a reason, don't believe all that fad about how laptops are replacing desktops yada yada, I have a 2TB Raid 5 drive array under my desk, last I checked there isn't even a RAID solution for any portable to date

Yeah, just to chime in, I actually have 9000 tracks and growing all ripped in 224 AAC for the notebook and in Lossless for the ext. HD. Now who doesn't have 40GB in legitimate music?

 

[EssentialParado]

It is not hard, simply go to Terminal, change to your iTunes folder

cd ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music

And then create a symbolic link

ln -s <target folder> <the name of the link you want>

I hadn't got around to doing this until today. Apparently it won't work, though.

According to my unix geek friends, it would simply make the external folder act as a sub-musicfolder within the library. And because iTunes detects the first level of the directory as "artist" (we assume) it won't work.

Any more thoughts?