kevin_4e Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 I was using an app called disk inventory which shows me all my files and a bunch of realated data. I have both iWork (Pages and Keynote) and the entire MS Office suite installed on my Mac. iWork takes an enite 2GB. Pages is 1.1GB and Keynote is .9GB. When i look at MS Office, the entire 4 apps, not including messenger only take up .5MB. MS Word takes up 20MB and Excel takes up 14MB. I know the Office statistics don't include templates and such, but they are still unbelievably smaller files that Apple's stuff. I think i have a simple answer to this, but what do you guys think. Why is Apple's 2 apps 2GB big and Microsofts 4 apps are only .5MB big? Thanks, kevin Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24978-why-is-iwork-so-big/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
quixos Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 if you right click and choose "Show Package Contents", you can see what the iWork application is full of. Keynote has 1Gig of themes alone. each of the iWork apps has language files, themes etc. you can save space by deleting things you don't use. i only use Keynote to open Microsoft PowerPoint files. so, i've chosen a simple black theme as my default, so it has one to open with, and deleted all the others. deleting unused language files is also a great way to save space. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24978-why-is-iwork-so-big/#findComment-168783 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Another reason why it's so big is because it's a universal app, which means it basically has two apps in one. A PPC version and an Intel version. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24978-why-is-iwork-so-big/#findComment-168857 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmk Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 also I think ms office has some other folder to store its files the kit has ~600MB ... and it cannot have just 50megs installed Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24978-why-is-iwork-so-big/#findComment-168899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 If it's that fat because of it being universal, can we use TrimTheFat on it? Or will iWork freak out if we do it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24978-why-is-iwork-so-big/#findComment-169443 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_4e Posted August 19, 2006 Author Share Posted August 19, 2006 I'll look into TrimTheFat. Anyone else used that before? It's not a problem that it's that big, i was just curious. Thanks for all the help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24978-why-is-iwork-so-big/#findComment-169733 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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