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From: Tom Stiller on 13 Jul 2010 18:54 In article <i1ipka$fd1$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > On 07-13-2010 18:26, Tony wrote: > > I am going to clean my Hd. IS there a way to view all my installed > > Applications and view their sizes? > > In Terminal, > > cd /Applications # (and anywhere else you have them) > > du -sk * # shows sizes in KB Or du -sh * # show sizes in "human" terms. -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
From: Tony on 13 Jul 2010 19:46 One more question I have is after upgrading from tiger to snow leopard I am having duplicates. Like 2 address books 2 Disk Utilities 2 Bootcamps And other basic Osx apps But only one copy works with Snow Leopard.
From: Jolly Roger on 13 Jul 2010 20:59 In article <8b63dfcb-2454-419b-800e-df2271a3945e(a)x20g2000pro.googlegroups.com>, Tony <henree21(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I am going to clean my Hd. IS there a way to view all my installed > Applications and view their sizes? One of the best utilities for visually seeing where you disk space is being used is a treemap program. Disk Inventory X is one such program for Mac OS X: <http://www.derlien.com/> And if you don't mind paying a little for it, DaisyDisk is probably the coolest version of such a utility I've ever had the pleasure of using: <http://www.daisydiskapp.com/> -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: David Empson on 13 Jul 2010 23:53 Tony <henree21(a)gmail.com> wrote: > One more question I have is after upgrading from tiger to snow leopard > I am having duplicates. > Like 2 address books > 2 Disk Utilities > 2 Bootcamps > And other basic Osx apps > But only one copy works with Snow Leopard. Did you move, rename, or delte any of the applications or utilities installed by Apple? If so, don't do that. In this case it sounds like you had moved the standard applications on Tiger, then installed Snow Leopard. This will have ended up with the Snow Leopard versions of the standard applications in their correct locations, and your moved Tiger applications will still be there. The Tiger versions of many of the applications won't work on Snow Leopard. You should delete all the applications you moved into a different location. If after installing Snow Leopard you moved, renamed or deleted any applications that were installed by Snow Leopard, then you need to undo that action and restore the standard locations for each application or utility. Apple's installer and software updates expect all of Apple's applications to be in the location where they were originally installed. If you move the application anywhere else and then apply a software update, the files that form part of the update are installed where the application was supposed to be, not where you moved it. This leaves you with a broken partial copy of the application in its "correct" location. Your moved copy of the application may still work, but it has NOT been updated. The same applies if you delete any of Apple's standard applications which form part of Mac OS X - the update will install files in the location it expects the application to be, but the resulting application won't work because parts of it are missing. To clean up after this sort of issue: (a) If you know where you moved everything and where they came from Delete the "partial" copies of each application in its normal location, move each original application back to its normal location, then reapply the latest Combo update and security update (or other updates as appropriate for non-system applications such as iPhoto, iTunes, etc.) (b) If you deleted some files or don't remember where everything was supposed to go Delete your copies of each of the moved applications, reinstall the system from the DVD, then apply all updates again as offered by Software Update. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: Wes Groleau on 14 Jul 2010 06:55
On 07-13-2010 23:53, David Empson wrote: > If you move the application anywhere else and then apply a software > update, the files that form part of the update are installed where the > application was supposed to be, not where you moved it. This leaves you > with a broken partial copy of the application in its "correct" location. It surprises me that after ten years of OS X, Apple still hasn't fixed this. -- Wes Groleau A parent's encounter with his daughter taking Latin http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1434 |