Where did I get so much hard disk space?

[natatos]

A few ours ago I finished upgrading to Snow Leopard (love it.) right now I'm putting my files back from my external HD and I'm almost done with it just have to finish copying my applications back and when I'm done I'm going to have about 160GB free when before I upgraded I only had 79GB I've went though and I have everything that I was going to put back, back on and didn't forget anything.

 

[HLdan]

No no no, Apple changed the way they read out the hard drive space. Most people are recovering a true 10-15GB. You can't be getting double. Check the other threads on this and they will explain it.

 

[efice32]

1. Snow Leopard takes up less space on the hard drive

2. Snow Leopard calculates a GB as 1000 MB where Leopard counted a GB as 1024 MB. It's not really extra space, just different math used to calculate it.

 

[natatos]

1. Snow Leopard takes up less space on the hard drive

2. Snow Leopard calculates a GB as 1000 MB where Leopard counted a GB as 1024 MB. It's not really extra space, just different math used to calculate it.

I knew that, but wouldn't that make it be less than more that way and if not than would that really give me about 90GB