2008-08-11

jetpack_monkey: (Veronica Mars - Also Eats Babies)
2008-08-11 11:29 am

Fun with Macs!

So, I'm quickly learning one of the more annoying aspects of the Mac. The multiple iLife programs (iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto) create copies of the files they import. This is not a problem in and of itself. What is a problem is that you tend to end up with two of everything on the machine when you only need the one.

I downloaded a Java app (which isn't perfect, alas) to handle the dupes, but it took pretty much all evening and was kind of a pain in the ass (I probably could've just nuked the dupe folders, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't deleting anything I only had the one of).

Also, having a hard-drive that is three times the size of my largest previous hard-drive has made me greedy. I start getting really concerned about file space when I get down to 50 GB now. Mind you, part of this is that I'm vidding now and I work with large-size movie files more often. I really need to get some external hard-drives or something.

I definitely need more RAM.