<div><div>If you want to reclaim some appreciable HD space, consider using Monolingual <<a href="http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/">http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/</a>></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder">
</div><div>"Monolingual is a program for removing unnecessary language resources from Mac OS X, in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space. It requires at least Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) and also works on Mac OS X
10.4 (Tiger)."</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I wouldn't mess with any invisible Unix files unless you know exactly what you are doing...</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder">
</div><div>Jeff</div><div>Glendale, WI</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 5, 2007 7:49 PM, Mark Des Cotes <<a href="mailto:lists@marksmandesign.ca">lists@marksmandesign.ca
</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I'm using WhatSize to help me clean out my hard drive. I notice an<br>invisible folder on the HD called "private" that is
2.3 GB in size.<br>The main culprit inside is a folder called "var" which in turn<br>contains the folder "vm" which holds a bunch of files titled<br>"swapfile#" Can someone tell me what these folders are for? Do they
<br>need to be that big?<br><br>thanks<br><br>Mark<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>X4U mailing list<br><a href="mailto:X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</a>
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