Disk cleanup advice for an inexperienced user
Firstly, I must confess that I am a Windows user but with the good intention in helping out a very inexperienced user with their Macbook air. Their 60Gb hard disk has completely filled up (100mb left!) and I need to free up about 5Gb to load another application for them.
My first consideration was to copy all the folders (except application) onto an external hard drive. Then create a Smart folder to highlight the largest files for deletion. I have noticed that there is a large file with an extension of .NDIF; can this be safely deleted? Any other advice in cleaning up the hard drive would be appreciated – maybe there are some temporary files that should be deleted? (BTW, Trash is empty). Do you think there is a better method to clean up the disk space than I have proposed?
Finally once I have sorted this out, should I be configuring Time Machine to backup the Macbook drive?
Thanks,
Phil
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.1)