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From: "Anthony Chilco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: [users] OOo 3 How much disk space should it need
TomW wrote:
Graham Smith wrote:
Thanks both,
This seems an amazing reduction in resource use. I'm surprised it
hasn't been commented on. What little I have read has assumed that 3
will be bigger than 2. Indeed I had assumed this would be the case.
and one of the reasons of looking at it was getting an eeepc and I
wondered how much extra room it would need.
Graham
2008/9/4 Anthony Chilco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
322meg for 2.4, 56meg for 3. Nothing in common files or application
data
that I can find.
tc
Graham Smith wrote:
Out of curiosity, I could not resist having a look at the latest beta
of 3, but it seems to be only taking up 50Mb of disk space, compared
with 300Mb plus for 2.4 (WinXP in both cases).
Does OOo 3 scatter its files around, or am I missing something
obvious, or have the OOo team really got the footprint down to 50Mb.
Graham
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OOo3.0 DEV on Vista shows 335Mb in the add/remove program dialog. There
are two folders in the "Program Files" directory. One is OOo-dev and
the other is OOo-dev3, totaling 335Mb.
TomW
Hi Tom,
I found the same thing last night when I did a new install of beta 3. Oh
well...
tc
XP/pro
Here is the Program Files directory info for space for 2.4.1 3.0 Beta and a
"Dev" from last month
Version 3 -- 56.3 meg \_beta\OpenOffice.org 3
JRE
\_beta\JRE and
\Java -- 934meg
with Java jre1.5.0_02 thru jre1.6.0_07
I do not really
know why it is so low
Version 2.4.1 -- 323 meg \OpenOffice.org 2.4
I have alot of
addons
OOo-dev -- 270 meg \_beta\OOo-dev includes \Basic
3.0 and \URE
I do not know if that helps any. I still cannot figure out why Version 3
beta has so little in files space
in the "_beta" directory I installed it in. I run 2.4.1 mostly, but I use
3.0 beta and dev sometimes to get
use to its "feel". I hope 3.0 comes out soon, so I can get rid of the space
they use.
To be honest with you.
I know that every number upgrade will need much more space. Adobe Photoshop
7 uses 133 meg, plus
up to 50-100 meg in other directories. Adobe Photoshop CS version took up
more than 1.5 gig in file space.
I went back down to version 7.
Unlike Microsoft and Adobe who think we are made of money to buy their
products and the extra
computer resources to use them, OOo people seem to be realists. Somewhere I
saw a chart with
a listing of the hard drive space usage for each version and patch beginning
with the very first one.
The progression of hard drive space seems to be a slow one. Small jumps in
needed resources over the
large ones MS and Adobe needed.
All in all, if you want better options and other added items, you will need
to use more hard drive space.
BY the BY
One "selling point" I used yesterday to switch from Word to OOo was the fact
of "native" export to PDF.
The guy was sending out DOC files with lots of photos for his e-newsletter.
I convinced him to use OOo
and use the PDF export option for his newsletter. I also sent a PDF version
back to him as a test of
OOo's PDF exporting. Cut the file size from 3.x meg to just about 1.2 meg
(lots of photos). He is not
looking at some other free and opensource software that I listed at
www.lungstrom.com web site. I
am adding some other windows software as well, as I find them. Any
suggestions?
Tim L.
retired, but still active
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