On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Charles Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Steve R <mailing.lists. >> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I make it a habit of downloading to a non-OS drive or partition, and >>> from there will mount or unzip a downloaded application, moving or >>> installing to the OS drive Applications folder. File Buddy is showing >>> a lot of invisible files, the sort I would expect to find on an OS >>> drive, such as /user/bin... etc. I'm also noticing an X11.app with >>> related files. I never run an application from this download drive >>> (or mounted image). Can I safely delete these files which have grown >>> into GBs of space in the past two years? >> >> >> What will make a PC happy will make the files slower to open or even >> unreadable the next time you try to open them on a Mac as various >> qualifiers and settings will be lost. >> > > Just what is this comment referring to ??????????? > > Just trying to keep the grey matter from scrambling!!!! >
I guess you would have to have experienced many PCs reactions to the extra files Macs insist on writing to different types of portable drives to know. And also experience the extra joy of the reactions of various Mac OSes when those files are deleted. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
