[OT] Disappearing Disk Space Under Lion

[stephen barncard]

I'm happy to announce that I've finally been able to install the 4th dev
preview of *Mountain Lion* successfully and it seems to play nice with
*Livecode
551 rc3*.

First observations
1. Install took about 40 minutes (after the installer download).
    about 10 minutes or less for actual install of the system, another 45
minutes or so to import all files, data and settings using the migration
assistant.
2. The 'modal' spinning beachball is now blue ( at least the one that
indicates 'I'm loading and you can't do anything' )
3. startup after ram check is amazingly fast.
4. drag-ctrl on app icon on first run will show the full *Gatekeeper
Dialog*that will allow an app (including LC) to start up past the
warnings.
5. Safari has a somewhat different UI - and "open new window in tabs" is on
by default
6. Google Street view finally works properly in Safari - no sticky click
(this took years to fix)
7. I <do> like 64 bit - FAST.

It would be sad and wrong if apple is disallowing 'some' apps such as
google maps. We still should have some choices, regardless of what stupid
drama between companies are going on.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> I did find one source of the disappearing disk space.  Apparently Lion
> creates A partition on your system disk named Recovery HD.  As you'd expect
> from the name, it provides some sort of recovery options for serious OS
> problems.  On my disk, it took 650megs of space, don't know what determines
> its size.
>
> Probably worth giving up 650megs in exchange for the recovery functions,
> but would have been nice to know about it.
>
> I also got bitten by the re-opening of files "feature" today - in
> Quicktime.  I switched off the option to do it in the System
> Preferences/General tab but had to reboot for it to take effect.  There are
> apparently ways to switch it off on a program by program basis by using
> terminal commands to update preference file settings.  Would have been nice
> for Apple to provide that in the application's preference settings.
>
> I read that Mountain Lion will be available very soon - I'm very afraid….
>
> And that Apple have decided that you may not run certain applications
> (Google Maps) on your very own iPhone….
>
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:
>
> > OmniDiskSweeper is a really good tool as well.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > On Jun 11, 2012, at 5:46 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> >
> > > Also wanted to pass on a nice tool for analysing disk space on Macs -
> > > GrandPerspective.  Shows a visual representation of all the files on a
> > disk
> > > as a kind of patchwork quit with each patch relative to the file size.
> > > Makes it super easy to spot the largest files.  And it's free.
> > > Pete
> > > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Thanks for all the suggestions folks.  Things have settled down as far
> > as
> > >> chunks of disk space disappearing and my system seems stable again
> now,
> > >> although I'm still at a loss to explain where it all went.
> > >>
> > >> Pete
> > >> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Do you own an iPad or iPhone? It may have been doing a wireless
> backup.
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Stephen Barncard
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