Can I safely trash all those printer files in /Library/Printers?

[Matthew Smith]

In article <210720030947281436%adsr@amiga.com>,
amiga500 <adsr@amiga.com> wrote:

> If I just keep the HP stuff, (since I have an HP printer) and trash the
> rest, can I just install a new driver if I get a new printer?

As long as the printer comes with the driver. You can't reinstall the
drivers from the OS X install disk.

Any reason why you want to get rid of them? They don't take up much
space.

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[amiga500]

In article <matty_d-7E4C61.09411022072003@duster.adelaide.on.net>,
Matthew Smith <matty_d@macxxx.com> wrote:

> In article <210720030947281436%adsr@amiga.com>,
> amiga500 <adsr@amiga.com> wrote:
>

> > If I just keep the HP stuff, (since I have an HP printer) and trash the
> > rest, can I just install a new driver if I get a new printer?

>
> As long as the printer comes with the driver. You can't reinstall the
> drivers from the OS X install disk.
>
> Any reason why you want to get rid of them? They don't take up much
> space.

Thanks.

Actually, my ./Library/Printers folder (not ./System/Library/Printers)
is over 500 MB. I'm trying to slim down my system for backup purposes.

[Neill Massello]

amiga500 <adsr@amiga.com> wrote:

> If I just keep the HP stuff, (since I have an HP printer) and trash the
> rest, can I just install a new driver if I get a new printer?

Yes, and you can run the printer installer packages on the second Jaguar
installer CD without going through the full installation process of
booting from the first CD. You can also save a lot of disk space just by
deleting unneeded language support (.lproj) files. The HP support files
are particularly porky in this regard. Try Mike Bombich's DeLocalizer
<http://software.bombich.com/local.html>.

[AES/newspost]

In article <1fyh7to.jlmjibwrek8N%nmassello@earthlink.net>,
[email]nmassello@earthlink.net[/email] (Neill Massello) wrote:

> deleting unneeded language support (.lproj) files. The HP support files
> are particularly porky in this regard. Try Mike Bombich's DeLocalizer
> <http://software.bombich.com/local.html>.

I'm thinking of doing this. Has anyone who's used DeLocalizer run into
any serious negative consequences?

[Jim Hill]

Gnarlodious wrote:

>Entity John Steinberg spoke thus:
>

>> FWIW, I've run DeLocalizer on a good dozen or so Jaguar partitions and
>> haven't seen problem one as a result.

>
>Same here.

ObAOL: Me, too.


Jim
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