To save space, you can en masse move the entire iTunes library to an external drive. Just drag the iTunes folder in your music library to an external drive. Option-Space also sometimes lets you type a space character when the spacebar would otherwise do something else, such as selecting the first item in a folder instead of activating Quicklook in the Leopard Finder (I think this hint was posted here). Ditto for selecting playlists in iTunes instead of play/pausing (I don't know if that has been.

If you have some basic unix skills, deleting files should be easy otherwise you may be risking data loss by trying this method.

Boot to single user mode holding cmd-s after powering on the computer. KB HT1492 and type the following command making sure there is a space before -uw and the /

mount -uw /

Now you are free to delete whatever you want (including system files, be careful!) Your home folder is located at /Users/

I've found that when the computer gets in this bad of shape, the following commands free up a few GB nicely.

rm -rf '/Library/Application Support/iDVD'

rm -rf '/Library/Application Support/Garageband'

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Most people rarely use this additional content and it can easily be reinstalled from the original install discs or iLife disc. It should give you about 3GB of space back, plenty enough to boot the computer and get back to a GUI for you to move your media off onto an external hard drive.

Apr 17, 2011 12:49 AM