[OS X TeX] What can be deleted

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Fri Jan 1 14:03:53 EST 2010


On Jan 1, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Ulrich Groh wrote:

> I have found the following TeX related files on my Mac. What can be deleted safely?
> 
> Fink-teTeX.texdist
> gwTeX-2003-2005.texdist
> MacPorts-teTeX.texdist
> TeXLive-2008.texdist
> TeXLive-2009.texdist  -> this I am using.
> 
> Thanks and Happy New Year 2010 
> 
> Ulrich

Howdy,

If you don't have the distribution you can safely delete it. However... these folders only contain symbolic links and are about 4KB each so you're not going to recover much space and you never know if ...

I wouldn't bother.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)






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