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    LESS HDD space after RAM upgrade or HW check?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by califfo1975, Jun 17, 2009.

  1. califfo1975

    califfo1975 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi all,

    there is something I am not able to understand. After I upgraded RAM to 4Gb (from 2Gb) with original Apple RAM (a lots of money!!!) I ran an H/W check (the short and the long one) at next boot and everything was OK (NFF). In spite of this I noted that there were 2Gb less on my HDD and I do not really understand why. Do you have any idea on the reason of this event?
    Was it because of the H/W check? Or something odd after RAM upgrade?
    Please let me know why this happened (if you got an idea) and what I could do in order to recover these 2GB (I have plenty of space now but I would prefer to have 2Gb of photos / mp3 instead of stolen space).
    Thanks
     
    califfo1975, Jun 17, 2009
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    crazycanuk Notebook Virtuoso

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    the 2 gig was moved to a hidden file for when you put your laptop into sleep/suspend mode as when your computer is in a suspended state all the contents of your ram is copied into this file. more ram means larger suspend file
     
    crazycanuk, Jun 17, 2009
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  3. califfo1975

    califfo1975 Notebook Consultant

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    So it is 100% normal, correct?
    Thanks
     
    califfo1975, Jun 17, 2009
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    100% normal
     
    crazycanuk, Jun 17, 2009
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    10000000000000000 thanks :)
     
    califfo1975, Jun 17, 2009
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    anytime. actually most users never even notice the drop in available storage, nice call
     
    crazycanuk, Jun 17, 2009
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