[CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

Can anyone tell me what are the best things to move off the internal drive of a G5 OSX Tiger tower in order to make more room? (Applications?, scratch space etc?) Its 160GB internal drive has 140 GBs on it now. Just about all of the user's data files (photos/ graphics) are already on external

[CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

Can anyone tell me what are the best things to move off the internal drive of a G5 OSX Tiger tower in order to make more room? (Applications?, scratch space etc?) Its 160GB internal drive has 140 GBs on it now. Buy another internal drive or two--they're cheap, and the internal bus is fast enou

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

>I suppose some of that internal drive is probably being used by >Photoshop/ CS2 and I might be able to assign an external scratch drive? >What else might be taking up so much space? If you have multiple drives that offer quick access (e.g. not a USB connected externam drive), you definitely sh

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

Tom Piwowar wrote: If you have multiple drives that offer quick access (e.g. not a USB connected externam drive), you definitely should use it for Photoshop scratch. Photoshop works better when it is using multiple drives. 3 LaCie external drives (80, 160 & 500 GBs) piggybacked on a firewi

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

>I just checked ... it's free for use with 20 GB of files, $12.95 for >unlimited data size use. Not a bad price never-the-less.Can you >recommend a similar software for use with PC's/ Windows? So it used to be free, but $12.95 seems fair. I have used something like this for Windows, Spac

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

At 11:41 AM -0800 12/31/08, db wrote: I just checked ... it's free for use with 20 GB of files, $12.95 for unlimited data size use. Not a bad price never-the-less.Can you recommend a similar software for use with PC's/ Windows? TreeSi

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

Thanks for the scratch disk and Mac file utility tips, Tom, In the interim, I was poking around and came across some other such utilities for OS X" (Not sure the table formatting below will work on the list ...) OmniDiskSweeper (free scan $ to delete) $ 15.00 h

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

>TreeSize Professional, but it is $49.95!!! That is just a nutty price for this function. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www

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> I have used something like this for Windows, SpaceMonger. I do remember > that it was not such a good a user interface. I would google on "disk > space analyzer" for a better one (then let me know what you found). WinDirStat. Free. http://windirstat.info/ ***

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

Oh brilliant idea Betty! Duh! I should have known the G5 tower could hold 2 SATA drives but you say it can hold 3? It's my friend's machine so I don't have it handy to poke around in. It's this machine however: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/stats/powermac_g5_dual_2.0.html

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

Possibly not as good as WhatSize, but free for 30 days/ 10 tries is File Buddy It's good for figuring out what big chunks of disk space is being used for. I just checked ... it's free for use with 20 GB of files, $12.95 for unlimited data size use. Not

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

>http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/stats/powermac_g5_dual_2 >.0.html That model has room for a second SATA drive. Installation is easy. Look for 4 dome shaped screws stored in holes the case. You take these out and screw them into the side holes of the drive. You can then push th

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

I have used Foldersize in the past (http:// foldersize.sourceforge.net/), managing ripped graphics files on a Windows network; it has limitations, notably that it isn't compatible with Vista. Jennifer Hiebert On Dec 31, 2008, at 5:30 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: TreeSize Professional, but it is

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

> Oh brilliant idea Betty! Duh! I should have known the G5 tower could hold 2 SATA drives but you say it can hold 3? > > It's my friend's machine so I don't have it handy to poke around in. It's this machine however: > http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/stats/powermac_g5_dual_

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

Betty, How did you suspend the 3rd drive below the optical drive ? db betty wrote: > Oh brilliant idea Betty! Duh! I should have known the G5 tower could hold 2 SATA drives but you say it can hold 3? > > It's my friend's machine so I don't have it handy to poke around in. It's this machine

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

Overkill for me but here's an interesting accessory that allows for adding 3 internal drives to a G5: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/faq/powermac-g5-how-to-install-additional-hard-drives.html db betty wrote: > Oh brilliant idea Betty! Duh! I should have known the G5 tower co

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

Thanks Tom, Looks like the G5 has a SATA I drive controller. A SATA II drive should plug right in (and operate at SATA I speeds) without need of data or power adapters or jumper mods correct? db Tom Piwowar wrote: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/stats/powermac_g5_dual_2 .0.

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>How did you suspend the 3rd drive below the optical drive ? I usually use duct tape for such things. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more a

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>A SATA II drive should plug right in (and operate at SATA I speeds) >without need of data or power adapters or jumper mods correct? Yes. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** polic

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I should have known! Duct tape... the 21st centuries "bailing wire" fix for the universe. db Tom Piwowar wrote: How did you suspend the 3rd drive below the optical drive ? I usually use duct tape for such things. *

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>How did you suspend the 3rd drive below the optical drive ? I usually use duct tape for such things. Metal or plastic straps work as well, or better, since there's no adhesive to break down. Duct tape is good. I used it to piece together my old Volkswagen. ***

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

Some long zip ties strung together might be good too. db b_s-wilk wrote: >How did you suspend the 3rd drive below the optical drive ? I usually use duct tape for such things. Metal or plastic straps work as well, or better, since there's no adhesive to break down. Duct tape is good. I used

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

>In the interim, I was poking around and came across some other such >utilities for OS X" Thanks for the list. Since mine is no longer free I took a look at these you suggested... >GrandPerspective > http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ The graphical display does not w

[CGUYS] [Fwd: Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?]

Tom Piwowar wrote: If you have multiple drives that offer quick access (e.g. not a USB connected externam drive), you definitely should use it for Photoshop scratch. Photoshop works better when it is using multiple drives. 3 LaCie external drives (80, 160 & 500 GBs) piggybacked on a firewi

Re: [CGUYS] [Fwd: Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive?

>Similarly, does it matter if the scratch disk is a discrete drive or only >a partition on a drive? A partition gets you nothing. Two partitions on the same drive are really just the same drive. So it has to be an independent drive. >3 LaCie external drives (80, 160 & 500 GBs) piggybacked on a

Re: [CGUYS] Making room on OSX primary drive? Disk Space Utilities

I found there are a bunch of Window's Disk Space Utilities but I found two I like that should do the job between them. JDiskReport (for Mac too): http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/ WinDirStat http://windirstat.info/ db Tom Piwowar wrote: I just checked ... it's free for use with