Robbo
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one thing i do (ironically to try and save space...) is delete the iphoto library every time i use iphoto, if its (stupidly) hiding/putting some copy of this somehwere then that could certainyl be causing some of this as i do import a lot of photos from my phone on there
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Nismo
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ARRRRRRRGHHHH whats eating my drive 
nom nom nom
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Balling
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I stopped using iPhoto as I found it wrecked havoc on my file structure. I never made sense of the the way iPhoto handles files and it seems to make multiple random copies of each photo every time you do something.
Granted, it's been years since I tried iPhoto, so it might behave differently now.
Using Picasa is much nicer as it's essentially just a viewer and you can then sort everything manually in Finder.
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evilrob
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quote:
Originally posted by Balling
Granted, it's been years since I tried iPhoto, so it might behave differently now.
Nope, it's still a piece of shit.
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Balling
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Well, that glowing review will not change my mind then.
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Robbo
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quote:
Originally posted by Nismo
ARRRRRRRGHHHH whats eating my drive
nom nom nom
[img]http://images61.fotki.com/v666/photos/2/261325/948660/macstorage-vi.jpg[img]
you have slightly more free space than to be concerned about yours 
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VrsTurbo
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 mine takes up far too much
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
unfortunately i dont have anywhere to put that much....
Do you piss yourself when you need a pee? 
Fuck me oRbbo, go a buy a drive.....problem solved 
[Edited on 19-02-2014 by Dom]
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Robbo
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the prices for mac drives i might as well just buy a new MBA :\
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Balling
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He means buy an external drive. They don't cost much.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Balling
He means buy an external drive. They don't cost much.
And if you get a 'portable' external drive then you don't have to use a 'power brick'.
[Edited on 19-02-2014 by Dom]
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Rob_Quads
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Try running Disk Inventory X - http://www.derlien.com/ - Useful for finging what files you have any where they are.
I used this and found that I had a load of temporary files which were created due to sleeping too much (had not rebooted in months)
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John
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Please tell me this has been rebooted at least 
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pow
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This thread
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pow
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Please tell me this has been rebooted at least
It wouldn't surprise me if it hasn't. I sat down at one of my customers MBP yesterday as he complained it wouldn't open Excel. Looking at the info on the system and the last boot time was 13/12/2013. Over 2 months since it had been shut down. MacBook owners think because their OS is sooo much damn better than Windows they can just snap the lid shut on their laptop when they are done for the day. Needless to say a simple reboot solved the problem and sped the machine up by a noticable level.
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Robbo
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no i reboot mine every few days as a minimum
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Rob_Quads
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
MacBook owners think because their OS is sooo much damn better than Windows they can just snap the lid shut on their laptop when they are done for the day. .
I'm not sure its quite that. Its probably more the fact that sleep has always worked on mac and they have come out of sleep quickly. Its only in recent years that this has started to work across the board on windows devices.
As you say, rebooting any machine every so often is a good thing. We even reboot our 390 machines at work to clear up the crap
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Robbo
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cleanmymac cleared 10GB  and showed me how huge garageband etc. is so i deleted that too as dont use it 
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
cleanmymac cleared 10GB
Awaits next thread moaning about lack of storage
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Balling
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quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
showed me how huge garageband is
365 mb, mine says.
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evilrob
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quote:
Originally posted by Balling
quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
showed me how huge garageband is
365 mb, mine says.
CleanMyMac will find all the ancillaries as well as the app file itself - there can be gigabytes of stuff in ~/Library/Application Support/GarageBand, ~/Library/Audio/Apple Loops and ~/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library depending on which version you have and whether or not you've opened it / opted to download the video lessons / additional content / plugins etc.
[Edited on 24-02-2014 by evilrob]
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Balling
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Yeah, just checked and I had some 1.80 GB of sounds.
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Rob_Quads
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Language files can also use up a lot of storage which you can delete and get back GB
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evilrob
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob_Quads
Language files can also use up a lot of storage which you can delete and get back GB
CleanMyMac sorts this out (and strips out PowerPC binaries if present) for you as well, although http://xslimmer.com can do this for free.
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Robbo
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quote:
Originally posted by Dom
quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
cleanmymac cleared 10GB
Awaits next thread moaning about lack of storage
undoubtedly! im gonna try and do soemthign with the raw files in my photo folders in the meantime to clear some more space then *hopefully* should be OK until such time as i need to replace (ideally with an iMac and an iPad )
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