ingenioso Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 OS X takes up 12 GB of space. How can I reduce it. Its a lot compared to other Operating systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Fogge Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 A lot of that space is all the foreign language support and multi-architecture support. I personally use Monolingual to get rid of those, and it significantly reduces the installation footprint. For a little bit of comparison... When Windows installs one of it's MUI Language Kits, you are looking at approximately 2GB per language, and OS X has a pretty substantial list of pre-installed languages out of the box. ~Adrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Fogge Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 Also, one other thing that is worth noting... 2 GB of that is your swapfile (Virtual Memory). Windows, Linux and the like also do this, however Windows simply hides the fact that it exists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ingenioso Posted September 21, 2008 Author Share Posted September 21, 2008 I used monolingual but my osx still takes up around 10GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Fogge Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Did you *actually* remove all languages except English, and the other architecture executable formats? By default, Monolingual leaves "common" foreign languages such as French, German, Chinese and the like in-place even when being run. So, minus your swapfile size (just like you would have on any OS), you are looking at 8GB of OS and bundled applications... of which another 2.6 GB is printer drivers which you may want to look at removing. Those are also optional at install time, and you can choose which manufacturers you want installed. ~Adrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxexcloo Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 You can also remove asian language fonts and voices to save space... My install takes 6GB with all my apps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 If you're on a Notebook, Hackbook you will also have a Sleep Image of about 4-6GB so look for post on that and how to get rid of it! Also, once again Windblows also have this file on their system they just don't count it! SticMAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Delete all the PPC code from your applications with Trimthefat, remove unnecessary languages, fonts and printer drivers and you save a lot of space. iAtkos only takes up 6gb on a full install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludacrisvp Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Just be aware that by removing extra language support and other architecture support it will make some applications report as damaged or they will not be able to have any updates applied to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusterBlade Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 especially if you have less hard drive capacity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idividebyzero Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Could it be suffering the same fate as Vista 64? Having to have multiple files in 32 and 64bit flavors? Vista 64 can be monstrous compared to 32bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 No, but files probably have double code, like in present Leopard that has PPC and i386. So no more files but bigger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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