DrBroccoli Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Rather than make 3 separate threads, I'm just going to merge all my questions into one and hopefully get them all answered! Been super busy the past few days and I finally have a spare time, so I'm crossing out things on my ever-growing to-do list. 1. I was reading the "best Mac apps thread" and found a program called "CleanMyMac." I ran it, and it's telling me it found 5.86 GB of "junk" it can delete. Before I go and have it remove all that, would someone mind taking a look of what it found and just giving it the once over and making sure some of it isn't vital? 2.8 MB PNG here: http://thefrapp.com/_/i/CleanMyMac.png 2. Lately for school, I've been working with some rather large Photoshop documents (~1/2 GB). I anticipated this and that is why I have the 17" MBP w/ 4 GB of RAM. When I know I'll be working on these large files, I switch into "Better Performance Mode" to enable the beefier GPU (since CS4 is supposed to offset some of the CPU load to the GPU right?). Yet I still find it slowing down my entire system. Little things too, like moving a small layer will cause my system to beach ball momentarily. It gets kind of annoying when I'm trying to finish my projects! 3. Lastly, I just realized Mail.app is using 3 GB. I currently have it set up with my school email and my gmail (also my website email, but I never get email on there). I've always been confused of the whole POP/IMAP thing. I believe I have them both set up as IMAP because I've been told it's better. Isn't one supposed to just "read and display" the mail while one actually downloads it all locally? I'm assuming IMAP does this and it's causing a rather high disk usage for Mail.app, which I doubt can be any good. Is there anyway to migrate over the accounts to POP (or whatever it isn't) and be able to safely delete my mail (locally) while still being able to access it (from a server, of course)? Hopefully someone can answer all my questions! Not a lot of free time in school and these tiny problems getting solved would be a relief to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted January 14, 2010 Veteran Share Posted January 14, 2010 1. Removing language or ppc binaries can cause problems in some apps, such as Microsoft Office. (usually problems with updating). Tread carefully, if you don't need the space I wouldn't bother. 2. http://macperformanceguide.com/OptimizingP...shop-Intro.html I can tell you right away now though that 4GB isn't enough when working with 1-2GB documents. Quick rule of thumb is to triple the amount of memory by the size of files you work with. (the link above goes into more detail) 3. Stay with IMAP, since it syncs emails that you've read/sorted/deleted to the mail server. POP would be the one that downloads every new email locally. The 3GB is probably due to attachments/images from emails. Change your offline preferences: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdmcmahon Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 1. I have never tried to purge old binaries as I often work on old-school and new-school Macs. Having said that, if you are using Time Machine, you can always get them back provided you can properly identify what you need to restore. Personally, I use Dropbox to keep certain app binaries and prefs in sync between Intel Macs and PowerPC Macs, it's safer to leave them be. It also begs the question of whether getting 5 GBs back is that important. Are you hurting on free space? Ask yourself if the ends justify the means. Also, can I assume you used Command+Alt+3 or 4 to take the above screenshot? To make your screenshots jpg by default, run the following in Terminal: defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpeg PNG files aren't hurting anything, but JPEG is a bit more common for the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted January 14, 2010 Veteran Share Posted January 14, 2010 Any modern browser should be able to load pngs; I'll pass on compressed jpegs. It's only a 53KB image either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdmcmahon Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Any modern browser should be able to load pngs; I'll pass on compressed jpegs. It's only a 53KB image either way. True all around, just personal preference and passing on some knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jamesyfx Subscriber² Posted January 14, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted January 14, 2010 I just tried an app called XSlimmer, it has a built in Blacklist with apps that cause problems if you alter them. I've successfully stripped languages and architectures out of all my apps (Including Xslimmer itself.....) I'd say it's perfectly safe. .... But quite pointless. In general you'll earn about 1GB of hard drive space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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