Clearing space on a Mac OSX machine

Firstly you might want to check what's using all your space using Disk Inventory X. Then there are quite a few articles (here, here, here) out there describing how to make space by deleting various wierd files. I'm just making a list here ones that I found made a difference (just run sudo rm -rf with dirs below - you can check how much they're taking using df -sk ) - though don't blame me if they bomb your system!

• ~/Library/Caches/* - Not sure about * but these are ones I've tried:
• ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/*
• ~/Library/Caches/Desktop/*
• ~/Library/Caches/QuickTime/*
• /Library/Packages/*
• /Library/Caches/* - Not sure about * but these are ones I've tried:
• /Library/Caches/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/
• /System/Library/Caches/*
• /private/var/root/Library/Caches/*
• /cores/*

If you're running macports then there also these locations:

• /opt/local/var/macports/build/
• /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles

[updated 1 May 09]