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How can I free-up some disk space?

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There are several simple ways of making more disk space available:

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Empty your trash by right-clicking the Trash icon on the bottom panel and selecting <guilabel>Empty the Trash folder</guilabel>.

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Run <application>Computer Janitor</application> by clicking <menuchoice><guimenu>System</guimenu><guisubmenu>Administration</guisubmenu><guisubmenu>Computer Janitor</guisubmenu></menuchoice>. This will remove unused or obsolete software packages from your computer. Read the list of packages carefully before you click <guibutton>Cleanup</guibutton>; packages that you have manually downloaded and installed may be listed as unused, even though they are not.

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Remove software packages that you no longer use. See <ulink type="help" url="ghelp:add-applications#removing"> Add/Remove Applications</ulink> for information on removing packages.

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Delete files that you no longer need. You can use the Disk Usage Analyzer (<menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guimenuitem>Accessories</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>Disk Usage Analyzer</guimenuitem></menuchoice>) to find which files are taking up the most space. Be careful not to delete files that you still need!

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You can also compress and archive your old, rarely-used documents:

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Select the files and folders that you want to compress, right-click one of them and select <guilabel>Create Archive</guilabel>.

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Choose a name, location and format for the file (the <filename>.tar.gz</filename> format is the most commonly used on Ubuntu, <filename>.zip</filename> is compatible with Windows and <filename>.tar.lzma</filename> usually offers the best compression).

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Click <guibutton>Create</guibutton>. An archive file will be created containing compressed copies of your files.