arstechnica.com — Have you ever wondered where all those gigabytes went between the moment you bought a new Mac and the moment you looked at the amount of free disk space after using the computer for a while? The real culprit is iPhoto. This application uses an unbelievable amount of disk space, as shown below...
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jjjjjjbMar 13, 2007
If you delete the non-used languages from Pages (via Get Info), you will save over 500MB. Keynote, not so much (about 100 Meg from the looks of it).Do the same for Logic also helps, though don't delete German.
shirowMar 13, 2007
So Mac OS X has some bloatware. BIG DEAL! There are bloatware apps for everything. When you run out of space on your Windows box, what do you do? Exactly. Buy more disk space. With 500GB drives for $140, it's not a big deal anymore to buy more space.Yeah, I agree that Apple needs to fix some things and that they probably won't for a little while, but what the hell! Stop waiting on someone else to help you and help yourself.
rickmeadMar 13, 2007
@endofeternityI work in electronics retail - I have for a long time. I have seen a very noticeable increase in individuals asking for macs and individuals asking for accesories/software for macs. I don't remember the exact % but I do know that Apple reported somewhere around 50% of the growth in sales in 2006 was due to new "switchers." Like I said, I am not an Apple fanboy and I don't really put a lot of stock in percent figures as I know they can be manipulated fairly easily; however, I have seen an increase in Mac users in the retail environment. I don't understand why you got so offended. People use what they use - even at 10% apple would still be in the minority - it seems that PC user fanboys feel threatened by apple's recent minor success (prominently due to iPod and not their computers). I just find it interesting. I also find it interesting that a Mac user can post a story on digg about how to make a Mac application more efficient and easier to use and PC users feel the need to comment and pick fights -- again not intended to be offensive.
rickmeadMar 13, 2007
WOW - ran monolingual last night ... freed up 1.9 gigs of HD space - I would say that is impressive.
kipmarloweMar 13, 2007
Broomett, your over-the-top response could mean you're a very angry person, or you could simply be in your 20's or younger, flexing your opinions. Perhaps a little of both.But your anger, the strength and emphasis of which however inappropriate, is actually helping me avoid some of the pitfalls of this whole posting online thing. Because I have to say . . . you got me. After mere months, I guess one can become a "fanboy" (but I'd prefer fanman please — so have a little respect). I have to begrudgingly admit I didn't check my bias at the door, and yet I came across neutral and unbiased. That's sneaky but, I swear, thoughtless and unintended.So, yea, I guess I am biased in that I don't -like- Microsoft, but I do Apple.But isn't it possible to love one technology without actually hating - another or other technology? My lone submission on digg was to revel in a tech product, the iPhone (one from CISCO, of course) that captured my imagination more than any other in recent years. And it's fun to prognosticate. I didn't post anything hateful, not against MS, Bill, or Windows enthusiasts, and I'd like to think I wouldn't have even without this "flame war."Though I don't like Microsoft anymore (I used to be a PC-biased network admin, mostly Novell in the 90s) I'm way too much of a realist to actually have "a thing" against Microsoft now, or to single out ANY of the monopolies in the post industrial age, legal or illegal. They ALL act EXACTLY the same with or without the likes of Bill G. and Steve B. Bill is a powerful man but Microsoft, as an entity, was too big for any one person during Microsoft's drive to dominate in the 90s. Bill ain't blameless, of course, but there IS such a thing as being swept along. Sure, some men resist that. They're heroes. Bill Gates, while I don't at all hate him, is no hero.All said, I have to address the fact that you really seem to hate. Hate a lot about digg, in fact, as one can see by your submissions/posts against Al Gore, Michael Moore (not a fan myself, actually), Steve Jobs . . . and you really hate the iPhone. LOL. Yea, unfortunate for you Apple is going to sell 10 Million and you're going to hate seeing them everywhere just like you've hated seeing those white earbuds.But you seem intelligent and articulate, with enough of an insightful bulls**t sniffer to turn it on yourself (smell your own pits) for the introspection so critical to health and happiness; so I hope you'll sort things out. But in the meantime, please try to calm down, and go a little easier on those you disagree with. And if my suspicion is right, that anger is a dominant force within you. Please seek some support. And to the extent that this is condescending, please forgive me for my clumsiness. But I really do wish you well . . .
rspeedMar 14, 2007
I disagree that iPhoto's wasteful use of disk space indicates that it is intentionally crippled. iMovie was once very wasteful with disk space and wasn't non-destructive (which also made some operations veeeeeery slow). A few years later one of the big updates completely changed that, and it was well after Final Cut Pro. A future iPhoto update may very well change it to be more efficient like Aperture.What's funny is that I've noticed Apurture is much faster with RAW files than iPhoto. Perhaps it's all a matter of optimizing for disk access?Also: DO NOT REMOVE PPC BINARIES WITH MONOLINGUAL IF YOU NEED TO RUN PPC APPLICATIONS!!!It removes the PowerPC frameworks from the system, thus killing Rosetta. This bit me in the ass a few months ago. I had to do an archive and install.
Closed AccountMar 14, 2007
Because there are a bazillion audio loops in it. I just finished a documentary project that I used Soundtrack on quite a bit. Trust me, you want even more loops than there are in that "hog" when you're trying to find the perfect mood for a piece of video. I threw together stuff that doesn't sound like anything you'll find anywhere, though. Jazz fusion organ stuff with eastern European violin riffs and disco bass lines that shouldn't work together, but do. I couldn't have done the same kind of scoring as quickly and easily with Acid, which I used to use a lot.
djcrazeMar 14, 2007
Aperature is a smaller file size than iPhoto, but has the same features, but more? Weird.iPhoto: 556MBAperature: 192MB