Mac OS X Help [memory]

[porkythe5th]

I'm attempting to clean my hard drive to free up some space and have run into a few things I'm quite "iffy" about.

First off, I upgraded my MacBook from Tiger to Leopard a few months back. Since I've slowly disintegrated the amount of memory left on my HD. Now that I am deleting unnecessary items I have run into one big problem, I have a folder named "Previous Systems" on my HD. It consists of multiple folders and seems to be exactly that, folders from my previous system (aka when my MacBook was running Tiger) that have been recovered or were transfered over to the newer Leopard OS. The problem is that this "Previous Systems" folder and the folders within take up a whopping 17 gigs. I'd like to delete it to free up some memory but don't know if it'll affect my computer or delete necessary files. Basically I don't know if it was created as a necessity or just in case i wanted to recover some files.

HELP!!! WANNA DELETE BUT DONT KNOW IF I SHOULD/CAN!!!
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[JimmyMcGee]

From my experience professionally these "backups" made by the Mac OS X Installers are not necessary.

Of course each case is different depending on where you have your Applications and Documents Stored and What Kind of Applications you are running.

What I do Is I take the Previous Systems File, Move it to a External HDD. Then Delete of the Mac HD. Wait a few months and if everything continues working, which It should, then you are clear. If Applications start to whine about Links and Stuff Put it Back. :)

BTW when you say "memory" I think RAM, not Hard Drive Space, that's "Storage."

[porkythe5th]

I will definitely try that then, and I'll remember to say "storage" next time. My mistake. Thanks for the input, attempting it right now...