Then there's the memory swap file. My iBook w/640mb RAM currently has 1gb swap file, and it inflates to 2gb every so often.
What version of Windows are you running? XP takes up several gigs on my PC, to say nothing of all the temp and uninstall files it creates and litters your hard drive with.
-matt
On Aug 17, 2004, at 4:03 PM, Brian Mahoney wrote:
My G3 333 has the standard drive, 8.5 gigs more or less. Last week when I
was trying to put OS X on it, it had something like 7.5 gigs of room left.
OS X 2.8 is now installed and I get a reading of 3.5 gigs left. Couple of
questions which I hope you folks can answer for me. One would be where did
all the space go? Even Windows in it's most bulked up form generally only
takes 500 megs or so.
The next would be, is there a form of Explorer for a Mac that will give me
all the details of my drive in the same way Windows Explorer does?I figure
there must be a drive error somewhere or there is some whopping temp file
that's clogging up a few gigs. I haven't downloaded much of anything, just
some chat programs etc. There were a lot of updates I had to get as soon as
I got the OS X loaded but I don't think they totalled anywhere near a gig.
Once I get used to the Mac, I'll drop in a 40 gig IDE for storage but this
loss of space on my small main drive has me baffled. I've even deleted a lot
of the OS 9 stuff, things that looked non-systemish plus a lot of the apps
that I had downloaded for OS 9.
Thanks for any tips.
BM
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