Can I safely delete sw.old folder on my MacBookPro ?
I'd like to get rid of all redundant software, and this looks like it.
Can I safely proceed and delete this folder ?
MacOS – safely delete sw.old folder on the MacBookPro
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Best Answer
http://www.finkproject.org/ installs in
/sw, so this may be a leftover of using that in the past. You might want to check your.bashrcetc to see whether any paths still point to that folder, but it's most probably safe to remove.What I usually do in such cases it to rename the directory (e.g.
sudo mv /sw.old /sw.old-DELETE-IN-SEPT-2019) and then wait a month to see if something breaks.