More drive space after Mavericks

[roxics]

Strange. I cleared up some space on my Macbook to install Mavericks. My trash was empty. I had 19.3GB of free space. Installed Mavericks and it is now telling me I have 25.85GB of free space.

???

 

[coldjeanzzz]

Yep same here, I gained nearly 10 GB i believe

They must have removed a lot of junk files from previous releases that weren't necessary

 

[clukas]

Wow, have not noticed this! 10GB is significant, this really shows how well Mavericks is designed, well done apple!

 

[redribben]

Goooooooood

Its good to hear that other people have experienced this chilling good feeling.

I had only 1gig of free space left after the download of mavericks. After the install finished, I looked at my HD and saw 47 gig of free space
(You know that sudden fear you get when something feels wrong)

I was wondering what documents apple had deleted because of the install. LOL



PS I had upgraded from Leopard.

 

[backinblack875]

same! got almost 15 more i believe!! sweet

 

[herbnhero]

i gained close to 20GB! how can this be? seems fishy

 

[eminemead]

i got around 10gig free space.

 

[Weaselboy]

Did all of you folks have Time Machine turned on? I noticed my Mavs install shrunk the Time Machine local backups down to almost zero. That would account for some savings.