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Robbo

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18th Aug 12 at 11:06

WTF is the "Other"... killing all my space, can't even do software updates on Mac now

I'm sure someone told me before that on the iPhone you need to restore a back-up to remove?

[Edited on 18-08-2012 by Robbo]

pow

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18th Aug 12 at 11:13

Application Data I assume on the MAC. In Windows you can delete that sort of shite

Balling

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18th Aug 12 at 11:52

I have roughly the same percentage of "other" on both my Macs. Don't think it's anything to worry about. Will be documents, zip files and the likes.

You could however quite easily free up 10% more screen realestate by not having such freakishly huge dock icons.

Rob_Quads

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18th Aug 12 at 19:55

When did you last reboot?

I didn't reboot mine for around a month so just used sleep and it built up around 30GB of temp swap files which were deleted on a reboot

noshua

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18th Aug 12 at 20:14

20GB of photos? Back them up to a USB stick or hard drive and Dropbox AND a few DVD's or similar and delete

LeeM

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18th Aug 12 at 20:17

I had shot loads of "other" on my original hdd, had to reformat it because I had it plugged in as an external drive and I deleted every single file but it still showed it

LeeM

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18th Aug 12 at 20:18

Also, this is why I bought a pro

Robbo

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19th Aug 12 at 08:41

how do you reboot a mac? restart do you meamn - cos i shut my down eveyr day (weirdly)

Rob_Quads

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19th Aug 12 at 09:21

Disk Inventory X is also useful for seeing where all your space is used up.

http://www.derlien.com

If you don't use garageband you can save a good chunk of space by removing it

j10E W

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19th Aug 12 at 10:49

mines the same swell
any way of getting rid of it?

LeeM

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19th Aug 12 at 14:34

i just deleted garageband and emptied my trash, my "other" has increased

Rob_Quads

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19th Aug 12 at 15:29

Other can also mean things like virtual images. i.e. anything that does not fall into the main other categories

Russ

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19th Aug 12 at 15:50

whiners.

i have 800gb in other. 760 is .MKV files

Sam

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19th Aug 12 at 17:12

Language files take up a lot of space too.

But yes download Disk Inventory X (it's free) and it'll tell you which of your porno movies is taking up the most amount of space

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19th Aug 12 at 20:15

Just get a bigger disk for the MacBook Air.

Oh yeah

Sam

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20th Aug 12 at 07:58

I do wonder if these crackpot ideas from Apple makes them lose a lot of customers?

The Air is quite nice visually, but I don't think I could buy one knowing I can't actually upgrade anything

Russ

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20th Aug 12 at 08:05

quote:
Originally posted by Sam
I do wonder if these crackpot ideas from Apple makes them lose a lot of customers?

The Air is quite nice visually, but I don't think I could buy one knowing I can't actually upgrade anything

they have been selling over 1m a quarter, so i doubt it

Rob_Quads

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20th Aug 12 at 09:02

quote:
Originally posted by Sam
I do wonder if these crackpot ideas from Apple makes them lose a lot of customers?

The Air is quite nice visually, but I don't think I could buy one knowing I can't actually upgrade anything

While it probably does loose some customers from it not being upgradable, I am pretty sure they have gained many more customers due to the ability to have the thin format due to not using off the shelf parts. The fact that other companys have taken 2/3/4 years to complete (still not being able to undercut them) with the form factor shows that the custom parts of a crutial part of the strategy.

you can upgrade the SSD if you really want to its just not a simple or cheap thing to do.

Balling

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20th Aug 12 at 09:04

quote:
Originally posted by Sam
I do wonder if these crackpot ideas from Apple makes them lose a lot of customers?

How big a percentage of sold laptops do you actually think are ever opened and upgraded by the owner? In the grand scheme of things, I'm guessing it's an infinitely small number.

But I'd think twice my self, before getting an un-upgradeable machine...

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20th Aug 12 at 09:29

There was an interesting article somewhere about the Air being a bit of an experiment to see whether people would actually want to buy a laptop with no user serviceable components in it. They did, the MacBook was dropped and the new Pro was born.

LeeM

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20th Aug 12 at 14:04

quote:
Originally posted by Russ

quote:
Originally posted by Sam
I do wonder if these crackpot ideas from Apple makes them lose a lot of customers?

The Air is quite nice visually, but I don't think I could buy one knowing I can't actually upgrade anything
they have been selling over 1m a quarter, so i doubt it

and i imagine those who dont buy the air for that reason by the pro.

Root

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20th Aug 12 at 14:08

Probably temporary files like on windows you have %APPDATA% (for example) and stored cookies and such, over a prolonged period of time they can take up a few gigs of space.

Also you don't have that much storage space anyway, consider getting an external hard drive to just plug and play for a bit of extra space

Sam

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20th Aug 12 at 15:30

quote:
Originally posted by LeeM

quote:
Originally posted by Russ

quote:
Originally posted by Sam
I do wonder if these crackpot ideas from Apple makes them lose a lot of customers?

The Air is quite nice visually, but I don't think I could buy one knowing I can't actually upgrade anything
they have been selling over 1m a quarter, so i doubt it

and i imagine those who dont buy the air for that reason by the pro.

The new retina display MacBook Pro is virtually non-upgradeable like the Air from what I understand.

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20th Aug 12 at 17:10

The New MacBook Pro was described as the least upgradable and repairable computer ever made by iFixit!

LeeM

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20th Aug 12 at 17:23

quote:
Originally posted by Sam

quote:
Originally posted by LeeM

quote:
Originally posted by Russ

quote:
Originally posted by Sam
I do wonder if these crackpot ideas from Apple makes them lose a lot of customers?

The Air is quite nice visually, but I don't think I could buy one knowing I can't actually upgrade anything
they have been selling over 1m a quarter, so i doubt it

and i imagine those who dont buy the air for that reason by the pro.

The new retina display MacBook Pro is virtually non-upgradeable like the Air from what I understand.