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After installing Leopard over Tiger, lost HDD space.

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reubs

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I installed Leopard over Tiger the other day, and I guess it did an "archive and install". I say I guess b/c I never made a selection of what to do. The installer just told me how much space I had and how much space would remain, so I figured that was the right way to go.

My question is this, though. Did Tiger get deleted? If so, why wasn't that HDD space regained?

THis is my first OS X upgrade, so thanks for any info anyone can share about it.
 
Well, Leopard takes more disk space than Tiger, so now you have less.
 
reubs said:
I installed Leopard over Tiger the other day, and I guess it did an "archive and install". I say I guess b/c I never made a selection of what to do. The installer just told me how much space I had and how much space would remain, so I figured that was the right way to go.

My question is this, though. Did Tiger get deleted? If so, why wasn't that HDD space regained?

THis is my first OS X upgrade, so thanks for any info anyone can share about it.
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Depends on how much you lost. If it was only a little, chances are that Leopard just takes up more space. If it's a considerable amount of space, maybe Tiger is still there.

Also, did you consider tha actual formatted size of your HD in your calculations?
 
Yeah, I considered my original HDD size. I had about 16.xx GB before the install, and now I have about 10.xx GB after the install.

I don't see a systems folder for Tiger, either.

Again, if this is normal that's fine. I just want to make sure I'm not missing something that I need to delete to free up some space.
 
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