But does "system" need to be sole owner of so many files? (rhetorical question)Other OSX turn-offs: -System-owned files (Lord, save me from another clean install)
The "system" is a real user in a real OS (like OS X and Windows XP). It needs to own files in order to use/modify them, just like any other user.
It's easy enough to change them when needed, however.I found taking ownership of files to be tedious. But I was trying to move things around after a clean install, which involved having to do it multiple times, and finding that taking ownership of multiple levels of folders often didn't work.
All modern OSes are like this. It's called Security - get used to it.After 8 years of being subjected to Windoze at work, no, I don't think I'm ever going to get used to "Security".
I used to use MacOS because it was was fun, easy, and non-fascist when it came to modifications. Now maybe I'm just using it because it's not Windoze.
Try this. Do whatever you need to do to make all files in the system folder visible to a search (I did the search in OS9). Look for occurrences of files that start with "Dutch". I get 283 files. A search for "Italian" turned up a similar number of files. And so on for several other languages.
Yes, there could be more files in the System folder, and yes, they all need to be there.
Or if you speak twelve languages and need help files in all of them, look in system-library-extensions and figure out just how many of those files are necessary for your system.
Or if you don't have an Airport Card and have no intention of ever getting one, check for "Airport" in system.
In OS9, with Extension Manager and some knowledge of how the system folder worked, it was easy to get rid of a lot of the unnecessary clutter.
That's why it's called an Operating SYSTEM, as in more than one. It's a SYSTEM of files and programs that allow you to OPERATE the computer. Get it?Thanks to the CAPITAL letters, I think I'm able to GET it.
Yes, but it's my drive space, and I want to fill it up with my files, not files that seem to exist because someone at Apple has a fetish for multiply-nested folders.Why does Safari have 16 cache folders with 16 subfolders in each? How about an iTrim app for reducing system folder size?)
Dunno about this one, I haven't really done much with Safari. But really, who cares if it has 1000 cache folders? Drive space is cheap.
I've been working on the assumption that a less bloated system is a good thing. It would use less memory, file searches would go faster, etc. I'm probably over-simplifying things, but if I wanted complexity, would I be using a Mac?
RMR
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