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Why is Keynote so big?
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I was just going through my hard-drive making some space (getting rid of apps and files that I no longer use), and I saw that Keynote takes up just over 1gb. Anybody know why it's such a space hog?
The entire MS Office Suite comes in at 500mb while Photoshop runs under 400mb.
In fact, alot of the Apple apps seem quite bloated in size; Pages is no lightweight at just under 900mb, iWeb is 300mb, iPhoto at 500mb?
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I have no idea as Keynote 2 is only 216MB in size (support files not inclusive). One possible reason for bloat is the presence of HD templates (which, due to their resolution, are going to be a lot bigger than the 800x600 and 1024x768 standard templates). The other reasons, I suspect will be the universal binary nature of the application and international support.
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Templates. That's what makes all of the iApps huge.
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Huge, but cool... The templates do take a lot of space, but also give you some great design ideas and guidelines.
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It doesn't really matter. Another app would just put all of its required files (like Adobe does, my Adobe folder in App support is +1GB) in another location (like Application Support) while the iApps all put it in one bundle.
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Yeah, it's the templates with all the themes and things of that nature.
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Cool. Thanks for the info everyone. I've removed all of the templates I don't see myself using.
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Originally Posted by Wiskedjak
Cool. Thanks for the info everyone. I've removed all of the templates I don't see myself using.
Actually, the templates themselves don't take up anywhere close to that full 1 GB. They've duplicated the templates in each localized language version. Delete the languages you don't use and you'll delete the bulk of the extra space. The same goes for Pages.
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Noticed that. Removed the multiple languages as well.
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Could removing languages possibly interfere with future system or software updates ?
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Unlikely. If they did, you could always reinstall them.
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I've just archived everything on a couple of DVDs. Between all the iApps, I've opened up several gigs of space
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