I just had someone ask me about some folder’s they found on there system… \u00c2\u00a0They were concerned that they folder’s in question where taking up a bit of space, and they wanted to clean up there hard drive…<\/p>\n
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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… \u00c2\u00a0Why could I do safely say that?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n “(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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Yes, you can safely remove them,\u00c2\u00a0assuming there isn’t some data that you need from those folders…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just had someone ask me about some folder’s they found on there system… \u00c2\u00a0They 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 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,5,25],"tags":[78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}