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Q: wanna download around 4GB of additional content and i have 11GB free on my drive...yet i get a msg saying drive is full...can someone help?

wanna download around 4GB of additional content and i have 11GB free on my drive...yet i get a msg saying drive is full...can someone help?

MainStage, Mac OS X (10.6.8), macbook air

Posted on Aug 8, 2013 11:52 AM

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  • by Blueberry,Helpful

    Blueberry Blueberry Aug 8, 2013 12:16 PM in response to Friction ms2
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    Aug 8, 2013 12:16 PM in response to Friction ms2

    Possible. A 4GB download needs up to 2.5 times the size (in this case about 10GB) during the installation after the download. Plus some safety margin, that you don't run out of space and the system goes down. So, yes, makes sense.

  • by Friction ms2,

    Friction ms2 Friction ms2 Aug 9, 2013 2:18 AM in response to Blueberry
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    Aug 9, 2013 2:18 AM in response to Blueberry

    well i guess i'll have to settle for this reply for now......any other angles or solutions would be welcome tho

  • by The Art Of Sound,Helpful

    The Art Of Sound The Art Of Sound Aug 14, 2013 6:49 AM in response to Friction ms2
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    Aug 14, 2013 6:49 AM in response to Friction ms2

    Well.. it's not a case of 'settling' for an answer.. What Blueberry said is correct..

     

    Its a fact.

     

    I'll also add to that two things..

     

    1) OS X needs roughly 20% of system drive free space to work efficiently.. It needs 'breathing space' if you like,. and if you are running OS X with less than 20% of free system drive space then OS X's performance will become sluggish...

     

    2) When you do anything in OS X some disk space is often used temporarily in place of system memory and that alone can quickly 'eat' into what you think you have as free space.. so add to that the act of downloading 4GB that can and will actually require much more space than simply what is needed by the download itself.. and you run out of your available space real quick. This is what Blueberry is aluding to...

     

    As an aside...A Macbook Air with their typically small system drives.. are great for what they are designed to do.. but running a memory and HD intensive program such as Logic Pro.. is not really their forte by any means,.. They can do it of course, but you have to make many compromises in the process.. and one of those includes using external HDs for storage of anything you don't need on a daily basis so you keep your System drive as 'clean' as possible .. and that means sacrificing convenience..

  • by Friction ms2,

    Friction ms2 Friction ms2 Aug 14, 2013 8:57 AM in response to The Art Of Sound
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    Aug 14, 2013 8:57 AM in response to The Art Of Sound

    thanx for your input guys...now here's the KICKER

     

    i had sucessfully downloaded all components of MS a year back under tighter circumstances compared to now...(in fact i think i

    had roughly the same amount of disk space free as the data to be downloaded !!!!! ) i reformated my drive and

    try to download under "very favourable" circumstaces compared to last time and just imagine my surprise !

     

    hope i've given u a clearer picture

  • by The Art Of Sound,

    The Art Of Sound The Art Of Sound Aug 14, 2013 12:11 PM in response to Friction ms2
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    Aug 14, 2013 12:11 PM in response to Friction ms2

    Ah.. the way MS downloaded and installed the content back then.. is different to how it is done with LPX and LP9 now... Apple changed the system used.. which might explain the probs you are now having...

     

    Hence my comments above...

  • by Friction ms2,

    Friction ms2 Friction ms2 Aug 15, 2013 2:52 AM in response to Friction ms2
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    Aug 15, 2013 2:52 AM in response to Friction ms2

    sure thats a possibility,but i dont use logic pro and not installed on my system either....i use MS as stand alone controller