[cyoung]

Guys i'm new to mac and let me tell you... I love it, it blows Windows out of the water. But being new I am a little lost when it comes to advanced features ects.

My 1st question is about the OS. How much space does it take up on my HD? It seems likes it a much larger OS than XP. I have a powermac 2GH G5 that I got about a week ago. I do my websign and my video editing on it. I got a WD 160G HD installed with the powermac from the factory.

I don't really understand the disk utiliy on mac. It shows the "149GB WDC... ect" at the top than under that the "Macinstosh HD" When I click on the "149 Disk" it says "Total Capacity 149GB (160,000..ect Bytes)"

The under my Mac HD I only have 149GB cap. and 116GB avalible. So i've used around 32 GB.

I don't know if that right or not... I have about 12GB of music and about 30-40min of Movie that i'm editing for a project. So are those numbers correct?

Also how can you select muilitble iteams in finder and see how much memory they are taking up.

Sorry for the newbie questions.

[cyoung]

Another question guys... about uninstalling programs on Mac. I know most programs so don't come with an uninstaller so here's what i've been doing. If I want to remove a program I just use spotlight and search for anything under that program, then I drop ALL the files into trash and just empty it.

Is that a good way to COMPLETLY uninstall a application from my mac? If not please post what you guys do, is there a uninstalling program that I can DL?

[moodymonster]

to get file sizes for multiple files:

select them - shift select for a group/apple select for indie items in a list view

then hold the alt key down and either select 'get info' from the file menu, or hold alt+apple and press 'i'

[wataru]

There's no need to seek out every single file associated with a program. Some apps come with an uninstaller, but otherwise all you need to do is drag the app itself to the trash.

OS X itself is 1-3GB depending on what extras you install. Pre-installed systems usually have everything (all languages, all printer drivers), so that's probably 3GB.

You know that a "160GB" drive is not actually 160GB, right? That's true regardless of the platform. They advertise it as 160GB based on 1KB=1000B, but computers use 1KB=1024B. That's just a fact of modern computing and has nothing to do with Macs or OS X. The true capacity of your drive is, in GB,

Code:
160 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 149

Just like Disk Utility says.

You can use programs like Omni Disk Sweeper to see what's taking up the most space on your drive.

[cyoung]

Thanks much guys for your help!

[IamBob]

I just drag the app to the trash. HD space is cheap and if I decide to reinstall I don't have to reconfigure anything.

Heck, some things I just never "install" in the first place. Run 'em off the disk image, unmount when done. Saves a little space and keeps my Applications folder trim.