Reclaiming space on MacBook Pro

I need to clear some junk off my MBP - got 2GB back tonight - but need to get rudi of more stuff.

Is it safe to remove all the dmgs for Neo-Office patches that I have installed in the past ?

I always did, just kept the latest one. Never had any problems.

Why not put all the dmgs on a USB stick? Realistically, how often are you going to need quick access to any of them?

I'd never thought about it

I'm doing some drastic cleaning out

I always managed to recover a bit of space using the app Monolingual - it removes all the language files you don't need. That said I've not used it for a while, so not sure if it works on Yosemite or Mavericks.

There are different versions for the various flavours of OS X- link

In reply to a post by goldenoldie:

I'm doing some drastic cleaning out

Oh dear, a woman in a clearing-out mood� not a safe place for a man to be

Snag is I'm not confident about cleaning this out - but I'm definitely running out of space and trying to find out where it's all gone

Hmm - that does look useful . Must work out what languages I do use - English , French, Ukrainian , occasionally Portugese

Could be well worth looking and seeing what I can clean out with that.

Is it likely to restore some space ?

Disk Inventory X I find is quite handy.

Monolingual would be a last resort, and only really useful when needing to shrink the OS as small as possible e.g. a USB boot disk

Simon.

When you are cleaning out the languages you are removing the information that applications and OSX display in the specific languages. You do not need the non English text to write and spell check in French. The only reason to keep other languages is if you share the computer with a French person.

Take a look at Macaroni, it will get rid of the language files you do not need as well as ensuring that the Caches and Log files are correctly disposed with on a Daily, Weekly and Monthly basis.

I assume you are emptying the trash via Finder periodically.

Oh yes - trash does get emptied periodically - via Finder . I found it surprising how much got in there and how big it got.

I think my main problem is photos and music

If you backup your phones and iPads to the Mac, check out the backup folder. Not at the computer atm but I deleted my old backups and got back a lot of space. In fact I moved the backup to another hd off my ssd on my Mac pro. There's a guide online if you do a search.