I went from 135GB free to 155GB free. Post your amount of recovered space also so we can compare them.
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How much Disk Space did you get back?
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I got 23 gigs back.
I have been very impressed with the Dev builds I have been getting and the final was pretty darn good for a x.x.0 release from Apple
I have been very impressed with the Dev builds I have been getting and the final was pretty darn good for a x.x.0 release from Apple
I think the bulk of that has to do with the SL displaying your hard drive space correctly. I dont really know the terminology for the formats what hard drive manufacturers display versus what operating systems display. I think only about 7gbs or so is due to the lighter OSX
Nope, the % fill of my drive is now different, 23 gigs less.
The % fill will not change by calculating GB vs GiB. The 23 GiB difference is just that. A lot of this came because the upgrade obliterated a lot of perl module cruft in my old install.
more space
I, too, saw a surprising gain in available disk space, but I can't say how much. I can say there's more there than there used to be. As a result, Time Machine is now laboring mightily to back up 8.6 GB to my Time Capsule.
Also, I've noticed that the "grid" that icons align to on the desktop is repositioned, and seems to be a considerable amount of ongoing confusion of apps needing to use or do things to my keychain.
We'll see how this all falls out. It definitely starts up faster than 10.5
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I, too, saw a surprising gain in available disk space, but I can't say how much. I can say there's more there than there used to be. As a result, Time Machine is now laboring mightily to back up 8.6 GB to my Time Capsule.
Also, I've noticed that the "grid" that icons align to on the desktop is repositioned, and seems to be a considerable amount of ongoing confusion of apps needing to use or do things to my keychain.
We'll see how this all falls out. It definitely starts up faster than 10.5
T
Edit - After seeing iStat Pro readings (the base 2 count)
I saw the actual reading. 91.4GB with Leopard and now I have 97.5GB with Snow Leopard. It was the full 6GB that Apple promised that I got back. I am not complaining.
I saw the actual reading. 91.4GB with Leopard and now I have 97.5GB with Snow Leopard. It was the full 6GB that Apple promised that I got back. I am not complaining.
Not to mention, it doesn't install the gigabytes of printer drivers by default like Leopard.
You people didn't gain more than the 7 GB promised 
As stated above, its GiB vs GB. OSX USED to calculate in GiB (although you thought it was GB) It not calculates in GB.
so, a KB is now 1000 B instead of 1024, and the same goes for MB and GB.
Don't believe me? The 320GB Harddrive that always listed as "297GB" total will now list as 320 GB.
Don't get excited, because now everything you install will take up more space than it says it will
As stated above, its GiB vs GB. OSX USED to calculate in GiB (although you thought it was GB) It not calculates in GB.
so, a KB is now 1000 B instead of 1024, and the same goes for MB and GB.
Don't believe me? The 320GB Harddrive that always listed as "297GB" total will now list as 320 GB.
Don't get excited, because now everything you install will take up more space than it says it will
Booooooooooo!!! Got excited for no reason
at least I will feel less ripped off when a 1TB drive barely gives me 900GBPrior to installation of 10.6, my Mac reported 32.32gb free. So, that's 34,393,292,800 bytes.
Following installation of 10.6, my Mac reports 46.22gb free. So, that's 46,220,000,000 bytes.
Hence, installing Snow Leopard gave me a net total of 11,826,707,200 bytes available on my hard disk that were not available before i.e. 11.8 gb or 11.01gb in old money.
Feel free to tell me why this is not more than the 7gb promised.
Following installation of 10.6, my Mac reports 46.22gb free. So, that's 46,220,000,000 bytes.
Hence, installing Snow Leopard gave me a net total of 11,826,707,200 bytes available on my hard disk that were not available before i.e. 11.8 gb or 11.01gb in old money.
Feel free to tell me why this is not more than the 7gb promised.
Snow Leopard frees up much less than 6. Leopard only took around 12gbs as a fresh install without crap you dont need like languages and printer drivers. Snow Leopard is NOT 6gbs with all the languages and printer drivers unchecked, its more like 10-11. In reality you only gain a couple GBs when you install the same things. People gaining over 20gbs are reading it wrong or had a whole mountain of crap building up over time which got deleted.
I went from 139.33 to 139.36. I thought that was pretty weird that it stayed so close to the same, but after reading these other posts it sort of makes sense. 10.6 is reporting memory differently than it did previously, so I actually did save space. I just have no idea how much.
