I will let gerbick talk to any technical point on what files/folders to remove - BUT if you intend on doing a lot of cleaning and/or access the files on your tablet a lot I really recommend getting openssh and WINSCP setup. It makes the whole task soooo much easier (and the setup is about...5 mins).

Cool, is this a matter of installing each of these from the App Mgr? If not, please provide some info

thx

You know... I've been thinking of just that silvermountain. I don't run my system like that; I might have to research, document and post that too.

Great idea.

Okay coos, pertaining the themes...

via the terminal: cd /usr/share/themes, then ls, rm -r <name> where "<name>" is the one you're deleting.

So for instance, it will be rm -r Glasser to delete Glasser. Repeat but take notice that I suggest that you do not remove Emacs, default and Default (redundant, I know).

I remove all but: echo, Emacs, default and Default here.

Mind you, I'm using a different image background already from the standard Echo theme (the only theme I keep, you *should* keep one standard one as well as Diablo5) so with that said...

cd /usr/share/backgrounds and from there I remove all *.desktop except the ones I'm keeping as well as default.desktop, you'd keep default.desktop, Diablo5 and whichever you decided to keep (I keep Echo) as well as (if it's not in use) all of the *.png files.

rm *.png will kill the pngs. You have to do the desktops one by one using the rm command. Do not use rm *.desktop or else they'll all be gone and your machine will not work right.

Cool, thanks...will work on this after bit!

Ah, this I can answer having done this install a number of times

This post is a great step-by-step install process. It really only takes 5-10 minutes and once you have used it once from your PC/Laptop you will never want to browse files on your tablet again

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=228133&postcount=1

I use this to browse, delete, copy, rename, open, edit...you name it...files on my tablet.

Before I reflashed and reformatted I used this to simply drag and drop the folders I wanted to save to my PC to an N810-folder I keep there.

another question:

gerbick mentioned the repositories are guilty of taking up quite a bit of space internally.

Is there any documentation on the amount per each repository (even a proximity) ?

Rough estimates, in descending order:

Maemo Extras-Devel: 6.9MB (should be kept disabled for more reasons than space),
Maemo Extras-Diablo: 3.4MB
Maemo Extras-Chinook: 2.2MB
RTComm Beta: 0.3MB
Nokia Catalog: 0.2 MB

(All other repo's that I have are 0.1MB or less:
Nokia Catalog (3rd party software)
Collabora Catalogue,
Fring,
Kawseq Consulting,
Mitrandir's,
Qole's Repo)

thanks silvermountain:

Also, do I assume correctly that even though you remove the repositories from the Application Manager that it WILL NOT give you back that storage space?

If you disable them; you will get your space back on reboot. On reboot, I believe it apt-get clean and apt-get remove as well as tries to clear out any tmp files.

If you remove them, on refresh/reboot... same thing.

COOL thanks!

FYI: started reading your blog, good stuff!