Tidy Up

My goal is to simply separate the data and make things tidy. I have many movie files and the rest are samples, song files/audio, etc. I just wanted to divide it for that reason but I can live with it. I already have 2 back-up external drives.

I fully agree... I'm still terribly human :-) Prefs are probably small, but a long list of files is a long list of opportunities of corruption. Caches can be larger. But indeed it's probably ok to erase it. Onyx is my friend. I uploaded 2.b1 since I have SL, and I run it 2-4 times per year. I also recently acquired TechTools (They had a 12 software for $50 deal) and...

Deleting old preferences files and cache files will not gain you any worthwhile increase in speed, either. Those files are sitting there, idle, taking up minimal amounts of room and doing nothing to impact performance of your computer. ...

I have lots of old files left over from installed programs etc. what like a general clean to make things seem fresh again!

Group ID appear in the list of groups. How can I tidy this up? ...

Group ID appear in the list of groups. How can I tidy this up? ...

noticed what appeared to be an excessive amount of folders containing only 1 or 2 photos apiece, scattered throughout the system. I got the bright idea to "tidy up " a bit so I created a folder where I could easily find it, and moved the single pix there and then deleted the original folders. ...

are you hitting on me ::love::.... pretty smooth. jk :). no, no one is aloud to touch my computer for fear of giving them a flesh eating bacteria... i dont want to be held responsible for them suddenly contracting a viral brain infection, i need to save my money for unbridled geekery! even if you disable everything in sharing, it can be undisabled and you wont even...

If a cluttered space means a cluttered brain, what does an empty space mean ?

You need to tidy up a bit, mon. ...