Timeline for How do iPhones and Macs handle OS storage?
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| Sep 17, 2016 at 14:40 | vote | accept | nightsurfer | ||
| Sep 9, 2016 at 6:04 | comment | added | WGroleau | Also, when you get an installer from the App Store, it goes into /Applications. If you run it there, it is NOT saved. If you don't want it to be deleted at the end of the install, you must move it somewhere else. | |
| Sep 9, 2016 at 6:02 | comment | added | WGroleau | I think it is no longer an option, but through many major version, the OS X installer had an option to save the previous system in a sub directory of the root. | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 17:33 | comment | added | nightsurfer | This definitely makes more sense than his argument. I almost can't wait to rub it in his face, he tends to be pretty smug about this stuff even though he really doesn't know tech all that well. | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 15:47 | comment | added | fsb | In addition to what @steve-chambers said, often the new version is larger than the one it replaces. The result, of course, is there's less available free space. This, possibly, gives the impression that the old OS is still around. | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 15:30 | history | answered | Steve Chambers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |