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Only 38 in mine on the laptop, but the folder takes up 415MB of drive space, more than half of which is in a single file in the db subfolder (a.receiptdb)... which only the installer has permissions for!
I wondered where all that backup activity came from after a trivial update 
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Interesting compared to mine.
72 items in receipts and yet the DB is only 98.5MB.
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Hmm. I'll have a look on the iMac when I get home.
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I see that some programs have several receipts. Front Row for example has three; I'm wondering could the earlier two not be deleted?
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I've got five for GarageBand and I don't even use it . I'm quite happy if you want to delete old stuff and report what happens 
I wonder if it's possible to force a "sanity check" on the update history... it's not a vast amount of HDD space, but it's not negligible either
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106 items and 640 MBytes here.
a.receipt.db is 384 MBytes, and the boms folder is 129 MBytes. The biggie in boms is com.apple.pkg.XeroxPrinterDrivers.bom at 32 MBytes. I don't have a Xerox printer.
The largest .pkg items are iWork 09 (11.2 MBytes) and iWeb (10.4 MBytes)
I've no real idea what would happen if you deleted some of the items. I know the contents of this folder are used when repairing permissions if you ever do that; and they *may* be used to determine which updates you haven't applied yet during Software Update.
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In reply to a post by AlanH:
Surely only the last should really be needed. If you miss one that is necessary you are warned that it is missing and are closed without updating.
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Well after a clone I deleted all the extra Apple updates. Receipts now total 50.
We'll see if anything untoward happens.
Run SU and it just shows one item that I've not yet installed.
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OK - so bearing in mind I have many many more than you [ there's a lot of updates from Neo-Office :( ] how do I know which I can remove ? the total comes to 644MB and it seems that I have mixed access to this little lot
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On the iMac there's 34 items (twelve for NeoOffice  ), total 430MB, the db file is 250MB... something cock-eyed somewhere 
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