After Leopard Upgrade
Hey everyone,
I bought my Leopard upgrade Saturday morning, and I absolutely love it. I have it installed on my MacBook 2.0 GHz with 1GB of RAM. The programs and general functionality is much faster than Tiger, but I was a little bit disappointed to see that some of the animations jittered occasionally; however, this is only a minor problem. My real reason for posting is because I was wondering what house keeping I should do now. I already repaired my disk permissions and I have done 2 or 3 restarts already. Just want to make my experience as streamlined a possible.
PS. I lost about 3.5GB of HD space after the upgrade. Is that normal? Any way I can recover some of it?
I bought my Leopard upgrade Saturday morning, and I absolutely love it. I have it installed on my MacBook 2.0 GHz with 1GB of RAM. The programs and general functionality is much faster than Tiger, but I was a little bit disappointed to see that some of the animations jittered occasionally; however, this is only a minor problem. My real reason for posting is because I was wondering what house keeping I should do now. I already repaired my disk permissions and I have done 2 or 3 restarts already. Just want to make my experience as streamlined a possible.
PS. I lost about 3.5GB of HD space after the upgrade. Is that normal? Any way I can recover some of it?
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... I already repaired my disk permissions and I have done 2 or 3 restarts already. Just want to make my experience as streamlined a possible.
PS. I lost about 3.5GB of HD space after the upgrade. Is that normal? Any way I can recover some of it?
Repairing permissions is most effective as a placebo. Since Apple added journalling to HFS+, I don't worry about disk maintenance. As for your "lost" 3.5 GB of hard drive capacity, this is normal.
Word to the Wise: If you don't know what you are doing, then don't do it.
Word to the Wise: If you don't know what you are doing, then don't do it.
i mean i knew what i was doing. this was just my first time doing an upgrade install, instead of a clean install
Same is true of Garage Band.
sthiede: If you don't use iDVD, you can nuke well over a gig of templates in /Library/Application Support/iDVD/
thanks! i have NEVER used iDVD.
thanks! i have NEVER used iDVD.
Also, by default Leopard installs over 2 gigs of printer drivers, most of which you'll never need. If you didn't de-select them during install you can delete them after by navigating to the printer drivers in the System folder. This can get you some space back!
What I did last time on a clean install was to deselect ALL printer drivers. Then when the system was loaded, I went to HP and downloaded the driver for the specific printer.
I have to ask though, I won't be using Time Machine or Spaces in any significant way, what's new that really makes this worth the upgrade?
Also, by default Leopard installs over 2 gigs of printer drivers
Score!
Edit: Jesus, couldn't apple at least zip/gzip/bzip those drivers so they don't take, like, 3.15GB of space??! They're fricken ASCII text files!