iLife and iWork take up so much space?!?

[lordmac]

Ok so I just bought iLife and iWork and i was looking at the box just before i went at it and opened it up i noticed iWork said it needed 3 gigs of hard drive space and then iLife said it needed 10 gigs of hard drive space. Now all i have is a 40 gig hard drive having a re. a 12 inch powerbook this seems slightly insane now i under ilife is 5 apps and im assuming that it probably for the most part that it just installs over my installed version of iLife 5 so in reality not taking that much new space on my machine. But 3 gigs for iWork seems insane when it only has 2 apps both of which are fairly basic if u consider all of Microsoft office only takes 186MB on my machine. This frustrates me as to intall these things i have to eat up almost half of my hard drive space.

 

[TheMonarch]

The apps themselves aren't that big at all, its all the templates, themes, and loops that suck up your HD space... You can delete them if you want.

 

[Bern]

There are also a few extra languages which can be removed by doing a Get Info on each app. in your ~/Applications folder. You can reduce Pages down to 265mb and Keynote to just over a gig by doing this.

 

[njmac]

There are also a few extra languages which can be removed by doing a Get Info on each app. in your ~/Applications folder. You can reduce Pages down to 265mb and Keynote to just over a gig by doing this.

great advice, thanks. My 40 GB hard drive is making me crazy.

 

[Bern]

You can do the same thing with your iLife apps as well.