Software updates & HD space

[eugenetyson]

I'm currently dowloading what appears to be half a gig of software updates for my laptop and was wondering do these eventually eat up you hard disk space as there are updates available monthly or are the updates intelligent enough to erase older versions etc, anyone know?

OS X Tiger

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[twiSSt]

It depends on the update - some will perform a clean up after install, but the thing to remember is that the big updates, say 10.4.10 to 10.4.11 contain packages which could be considered upgrades not updates. Meaning they may significantly change the OS, hopefully for the better.

10.5 does updating a little differently, and from what I see is a little more efficient than past versions of X.

So yes it will probably increase the footprint of the OS, but many of the applications we use on a daily basis do as well.


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[jmgalvin]

You will notice, during the install process, the "optimizing disk" notice. This is trashing old, replaced files in the system and defragmenting the disk. If you check the available disk space before and after the upgrade you'll find that you might have used up a little more, but nothing of any great magnitude.

Using OSX 10.3.9 & 10.4.11 on a G4, G5 & Intel Macbook