Well, the daily, weekly, and monthly scripts are supposed to remove older temp files. If you regularily shutdown your system, I understand that the launch service can get confused and never schedule them to run. Check the consoel for their log files and confirm that they have run. There are also some add on utilities meant to clean out old preference files and such.
Jon On Sep 13, 2009, at 8:26 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
