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To preface this whole thing, I have a Mac Book Pro (prior to the aluminum) with 2 gigs of RAM. It's the least expensive of the MBP's.
I know that to uninstall a program, you simply toss its app into the trash, that's easy enough. However, there are two methods (well, more if you consider the third party apps which supposedly locate all the files you need to trash which are associated with said apps/programs) within OS X which allow you to delete the items in the trash bin. The first being a simple right click, and choosing "empty trash". That has always (for me) just gotten rid of whatever was residing in there, as if it were only one item.
On the other hand, there's also the "empty securely" method, which takes a lot longer, and obviously so, because it gets rid of more than the former method. So my next logical question is:
If I just "empty trash", are there still tens of thousands of files (which were associated with the app I trashed) still sitting randomly on my hard drive ? And if so, why would the trash behave like this (aside from the programmers wanting it to.. but why would they, is my question.) ?
My problem with this is that of course I want to just rid my HD of any rogue files which are taking up space, but as I type this, OS X is totally deleting (the latter method) 40,000 files which were associated with iWork, and in the process, slowing down everything else in general. Beach balls when wanting to scroll, open a new window etc.. Not for long, granted, but it's enough to be annoying considering how much cash I spent for such a supposed "work horse". I know this isn't Linux (don't use Windows anymore, haven't for 3 years), but I have never experienced this type of behavior due to deleting anything before.
I was also under the impression that a certain amount of RAM was allocated for specific tasks, and stays with that task so that if anything went wrong with said task, and it crashed, it wouldn't affect anything else. So why should 2 gigs of RAM not be enough for simply deleting a whole lot of stuff, plus doing basic web surfing and such ?
Lastly, OS X deletes everything in a very sloth-like manner. Why is it so SLOW ? It shouldn't matter how many objects it has to delete, only that it does it efficiently. Both Windows and Linux OS's in my experience delete mass amounts of data blindingly faster than OS X does, and that also annoys me. Is there a good reason for this ?
I know that to uninstall a program, you simply toss its app into the trash, that's easy enough. However, there are two methods (well, more if you consider the third party apps which supposedly locate all the files you need to trash which are associated with said apps/programs) within OS X which allow you to delete the items in the trash bin. The first being a simple right click, and choosing "empty trash". That has always (for me) just gotten rid of whatever was residing in there, as if it were only one item.
On the other hand, there's also the "empty securely" method, which takes a lot longer, and obviously so, because it gets rid of more than the former method. So my next logical question is:
If I just "empty trash", are there still tens of thousands of files (which were associated with the app I trashed) still sitting randomly on my hard drive ? And if so, why would the trash behave like this (aside from the programmers wanting it to.. but why would they, is my question.) ?
My problem with this is that of course I want to just rid my HD of any rogue files which are taking up space, but as I type this, OS X is totally deleting (the latter method) 40,000 files which were associated with iWork, and in the process, slowing down everything else in general. Beach balls when wanting to scroll, open a new window etc.. Not for long, granted, but it's enough to be annoying considering how much cash I spent for such a supposed "work horse". I know this isn't Linux (don't use Windows anymore, haven't for 3 years), but I have never experienced this type of behavior due to deleting anything before.
I was also under the impression that a certain amount of RAM was allocated for specific tasks, and stays with that task so that if anything went wrong with said task, and it crashed, it wouldn't affect anything else. So why should 2 gigs of RAM not be enough for simply deleting a whole lot of stuff, plus doing basic web surfing and such ?
Lastly, OS X deletes everything in a very sloth-like manner. Why is it so SLOW ? It shouldn't matter how many objects it has to delete, only that it does it efficiently. Both Windows and Linux OS's in my experience delete mass amounts of data blindingly faster than OS X does, and that also annoys me. Is there a good reason for this ?