Re: Purgeable?

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Purgeable?
Date	2016-09-26 12:55 -0700
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On 9/26/16, 12:48 PM, in article
1238364463.496611942.181385.elfinarc6-gmail.com@news.individual.net,
"ElfinArc" <elfinarc6@gmail.com> wrote:

> Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> wrote:
>> On 9/26/16 2:31 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>> On 2016-09-26, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>>>> I note that in doing "Get Info" on my internal hd, there is a line that
>>>> I'm curious about:
>>>> 
>>>> Available: 115.72 GB (2.25 GB purgeable)
>>>> 
>>>> What's that "purgeable" about?
>>> 
>>> It's a new feature in macOS Sierra:
>>> 
>>> <https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht206996>
>>> 
>> 
>> Yeah, a great feature all right.
>> 
>> It "helps free up storage space on your Mac" (which is free) by moving
>> files to Apple's cloud servers where you have to pay rent if you move
>> enough to make a meaningful increase in your hard disk storage space.
>> 
>> Good one Tim. The stockholders are proud;-)
>> 
> For those not hung up on big ass hard drives, which are certainly NOT free,
> this is a good thing.  My MacBook has 256Gb of SSD storage so I could
> certainly see how some would find this a big plus.  But I read the support
> document over and over again, and didn't notice a single thing that was
> required to be done so those that don't find it of value can keep on the
> way they've been doing.
> 
> It is all about choices!
> 

Right. I have desktops with quite a bit of storage. I will NOT be using it.
Others might. Cool!


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Purgeable? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-09-26 11:20 -0700
  Re: Purgeable? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-09-26 18:31 +0000
    Re: Purgeable? Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2016-09-26 15:41 -0400
      Re: Purgeable? ElfinArc <elfinarc6@gmail.com> - 2016-09-26 14:48 -0500
        Re: Purgeable? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-26 12:55 -0700
      Re: Purgeable? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-09-26 19:58 +0000
      Re: Purgeable? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-26 16:29 -0400
      Re: Purgeable? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-27 01:18 +0000
    Re: Purgeable? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-09-26 14:33 -0700

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