Snow Leopard takes 50gb of space, thats gotta be wrong.

[npk1]

Hi everyone, I hope all of you are having a great day. When I restore a disk image in Snow Leopard it takes over 50gb of install space! I know that os x should take about 9gb. What is happening?
Thanks in advance.

 

[GGJstudios]

http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html

General requirements

Mac computer with an Intel processor
1GB of memory
5GB of available disk space

Are you restoring user data and user-installed apps along with the OS? That would cause the space requirement to grow.

 

[npk1]

Thanks for the reply. I am doing a clean install.

 

[npk1]

I tried a reinstall of Snow Leopard and once again it takes up over 50gb. This happens with a clean install as well as a disk restore. What can i do? SL should only take 9 gb or so.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Is that with all the goodies or straight SL?

 

[npk1]

I am using a retail version of SL. How can i tell if it is installing additional apps?

 

[old-wiz]

... When I restore a disk image in Snow Leopard it takes over 50gb of install space!

restoring a disk image is not the same as doing a clean install. What exactly are you trying to do??

 

[npk1]

Hi Old-wiz, I would like to restore a disk image, but when i do so, Disk Utilities shows that i have used up over 50gb of space. This happens when i do a clean install also.

 

[old-wiz]

Hi Old-wiz, I would like to restore a disk image, but when i do so, Disk Utilities shows that i have used up over 50gb of space. This happens when i do a clean install also.

What is the disk image then? an application?

 

[npk1]

disk image from Time Machine.