Interestin. That might account for some of it, but I thought there must be be a lot of temp files ore something that got deleted during the upgrade. That was what I ment by bloating. Windows did that no matter how often you cleared the temps and caches.
I'm not complaining aout getting the space back you understand, just wondering if I can keep my OS from growing to that extent again or whether I should worry about it? Best, erik burggraaf A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: [email protected] On 2009-09-13, at 7:53 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi erik, > > Yes, one of the advertised features of Snow Leopard was an effort to > make the same apps run in less space, and also to reduce the files > that got loaded by default. So no, it wasn't a question of Leopard > starting out bloated, Apple tried to both reduce the size of standard > applications and make the suite of applications run in a tighter > configuration in Snow Leopard. > > Here's a quote from a very early article (February) in Wired entitled > "Leaked Snow Leopard Screenshots Reveal Slimmer, Faster Mac OS X": > > <begin quote> > Apple’s suite of stock applications seem to have also gone on a strict > diet and exercise regime, with nearly all the included apps radically > reduced in size. For example, iChat in Leopard weighs in at 114MB > while the Snow Leopard version drops to 22 MB, Dashboard goes from 184 > KB to 111 KB and Mail goes from 289 MB to 36 MB. Overall Snow > Leopard’s application appear to save around a gig of drive space > compared to Leopard. > <end quote> > > However, could it be that you still had copies of some of your music > files stored in iTunes? I don't think that the new OS accounts for > all the difference. Some of this may be that certain files won't be > installed automatically by the base installation. For example, I > think you may to check that QuickTime gets installed. Also, people > who got the iLife '08 or iLife '09 suite had a lot of extras files > added in, like Garage Band loops and sound effects. As a followup to > the ringtones discussion, I noted that there were a lot of sound > effect files in the: > /Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/ > folder under two directories: "Apple Loops for Garageband" and "iLife > Sound Effects". The iLife Sound Effects are particularly nice for > making ringtones, and under the "Work - Home" folder there were > numerous sound of telephones ringing, wrong number messages, fax > tones, etc. These are .caf (core audio files), so they can't be used > directly for ringtones by converting in iTunes -- they're basically > like AIFF files but extended so that they aren't subject to the same 4 > GB size limit and number of tracks that AIFF has -- but they can be > opened in Amadeus Pro and converted just by selecting the track > (Command-A) and going to the File menu on the Amadeus menu bar (VO-M; > Press "F" and arrow down) and pressing "E" to go to "Export as iPhone > Rightone…" then pressing return. Accepting all defaults will generate > a Ringtone soundclip and add it to your iTunes Ringtones directory. > > These sound files also appear to be left out of the Snow Leopard > install, since someone reported not being able to find them after > doing a clean install to Snow Leopard. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > > On Sep 13, 2009, erik burggraaf wrote: > >> >> Hi guys, it's tough to be sure, but I think I was down around 55 gb >> free on my macbook. After installing sl I seem to have gotten about >> 30 gb of space back from somewhere. Did any one else notice this? >> It's quite a nice improvement. I do empty my trash regularly by the >> way,. It's just that I store my music all on the laptop here, and it >> has some other huge files on it that were eating my drive space. Or >> so I thought, but maybe leppard was just a bit bloated. >> >> Best, >> >> erik burggraaf >> A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. >> Phone: 888-255-5194 >> Email: [email protected] >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
