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I was at the apple store diagnosing something, and the lady told me that item's on my desktop take up ram. I have a couple folders with tons of videos in them on my desktop. My ram would surely be shot if they took up ram no?
Yes and no. Yes in that they do, in a technical sense, use memory when being displayed by most operating systems. No in the sense that removing them will have no impact on performance on an even remotely modern computer(unless you had hundreds of icons showing). The amount of memory used to draw the icon is minimal, the contents of the folder are not using memory.
what if i had a .mov file on my desktop? Would that suck up a more substantial amount of ram?
Again, just the icon.
I didn't think she should have been working at the genius bar. Werd my brotha wjosten. You should be the genius at the Genius bar my brotha. Like your pickture mate 😉
Technically, she is correct, however the actual memory usage is minimal. Now, if you have hundreds of icons, well that's a different story.
<------ 1 GB RAM on desktop.
Do desktop items take up ram?
