Did anyone else just get a bunch of free space?

[lukekarts]

20GB freed up here. No idea how/why.

2011 MBA 13/256.

 

[SpyderBite]

Didn't notice until I read this thread. My free disk space increased by about 19 gb. Go figure.

 

[Andeavor]

I've got 40GB more space to fill with porn.

I assume they are backup files, unnecessary registry files and other stuff I wouldn't even know about. Everything else is still there.

 

[Sylon]

Basing it off of my CCC clone I made right before upgrading, looks like I gained about 7GB of free space.


But also, I updated a lot of apps right before I installed ML. Keynote, iPhoto, iMovie RealRacing 2 and XCode all received updates. That could have played a factor as well.

 

[Jony Mac]

I actually lost 4GB of disk space. I was trying to figure out why. The only thing I did was install Lion, grab the updates for iWork, iPhoto, iMovie, Aperture, and XCode. Strange.

 

[5H3PH3RD]

37GB Free'd up here! No idea why, it was a new machine which had only been used a few days with very little installed!

 

[LevMac]

Wow, im not sure what I have done wrong with my installation.

I simply purchased and downloaded Mountain Lion, then created a USB boot drive off my 8GB flash drive, then performed a clean install, making sure that I erased Macintosh HD through Disk Utility, then continued on with the installation, my drive is 250GB and right after the clean install, its showing 19GB used ?!?!?

Help ? lol

 

[8CoreWhore]

Wow, im not sure what I have done wrong with my installation.

I simply purchased and downloaded Mountain Lion, then created a USB boot drive off my 8GB flash drive, then performed a clean install, making sure that I erased Macintosh HD through Disk Utility, then continued on with the installation, my drive is 250GB and right after the clean install, its showing 19GB used ?!?!?

Help ? lol

ML creates an extra restore hidden partition with an OS on it. Plus, the 8GB is highly compressed... so that gets larger when unpacked. You're good.

 

[dcorban]

My install log shows 15.75GB more free space after the upgrade. Nice catch!