Mac help please!

[Inferno]

I know nothing about macs (really, nothing), but hopefully someone on here can help!

The problem:

I want to upgrade to Mac OS X update combined 10.5.8, but it says I don't have enough memory to do it. It does say that I can go and delete some stuff from the memory, but I don't really know where to start to see what's on the memory or what can/can't be deleted. And i don't want to screw up the system as it's not mine!

Cheers,

 

[Dip]

Size of the update can vary, hence the reason why its asking you to delete some stuff off the memory. Right click on the Mac HD>Get Info that should tell you how much space is free.
Then double click it to get to Docs, Pics, etc and move stuff to an external drive??

 

[The Ironist]

If it's not yours you probably shouldn't delete anything without asking owner.

But a very useful program is disk inventory x. It tells you where memory is being used and has a block breakdown thing which shows files as a % of total space