I just had someone ask me about some folder’s they found on there system… They were concerned that they folder’s in question where taking up a bit of space, and they wanted to clean up there hard drive…
For example:
- /Developer (from old Mac)
- /opt (from old Mac)
The common factor, was the “(from old Mac)”…. I was able to safely say that it was safe to remove the folders, assuming they had removed any data they needed from the folders… Why could I do safely say that?
“(from old Mac)” is what the Migration Utility add’s to folders that it is copying over from your OLD MAC, when there is a naming conflict.
In otherwords, it didn’t overwrite the new developer tools that came with your new system, it gave the old copy from your old system a slightly different name by appending “(from old Mac)” to the folder name.
Yes, you can safely remove them, assuming there isn’t some data that you need from those folders…
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