Hello chaps, I've just splashed out on a new MacBook Pro and I'm very happy with it apart from the price and the fact I had to reduce the size of the hard drive. I'm already up to the limited 250GB (I had 500 before but only used 270 or so.
I have put all music on iTunes Match - works well even in Thailand. My pics are all going on Flickr or similar. I'm also clearing off all the crap using Omni Sweeper to find the large files. The only thing I am not sure, and which is taking 12.8 GB of space. Its in Private and the largest folder inside that is called var. Within the folder var are lots of files but the heaviest folder is called vm requiring most of the 12gb space. In this folder there are 10 files. The heaviest being one called sleepimage at 8gb then the rest are called swapfiles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 varying from 1gb down to 64mb. Are these important? Seems rather odd and I haven't seen anything like this before on the HD? Thanks for any help. BTW I love the way the Mac feels, it's just gorgeous and is a lot quicker than the equivalent machine of 2 years ago I had previously. The retina display is awesome but is pricey and on reflection I may not have gone for it but then again I do look at the screen a lot and also have particularly bad eyesight so it was kind of worth it. Michael -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
