On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Charles Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 11, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> >> 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. >> > Still doesn't really make any sense. I don't remember any mention of > WINTEL machines/ Systems. > So why a comment referring to the troubles caused with 'cross > platform' file movements? >
Which makes it all the worse to remove the files on those other drives. They are put there for system access reasons. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
