Subject | Re: mac sales down |
From | Mitch |
Date | 05/17/2008 08:19 (05/16/2008 20:19) |
Message-ID | <160520082019391474%mitch@hawaii.rr> |
Client | |
Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
Follows | -hh |
Followups | Steve de Mena (1h & 48m) > Mitch -hh (5h & 3m) |
Steve de Mena
System folder is 4GB Library folder is 104 GB
-hhBad maintenance and organization are no blame against the OS. If someone stores all mails and attachments, they don't understand what they are doing. That's a ridiculous place to store files. People should know better than to keep all mail, and should definitely know better than to keep every attachment there.
Steve, how about a breakdown as to what's in that huge Library folder of yours?
FWIW, I do recognize that emailing around large attachments can start to suck up storage (/Library/Mail Attachments), but that sort of task is the classical domain of a **work** user and stuff like Powerpoint charts, which is not the domain of a typical home user. Even then, we're still talking about an area with fairly significant variability (based on duties), and in at least some environments, a "heavy" email user will be pushing <10GB/year. As such, having 100GB stored represents well over 10 years worth of email, since file size and bandwidth consumption from 5-10 years ago weren't close to what they are today.