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10.3: See some of the hidden Access Card features
Authored by: derPlau on Nov 12, '03 12:59:49PM

That's pretty cool. But I wonder how much of a standard install (and, by extension, how much disk space) is taken up by these types of things that are so clearly devoted to a very specific subset of users? Seems like a bit of a waste, really.



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10.3: See some of the hidden Access Card features
Authored by: aranor on Nov 12, '03 09:11:14PM

Erm, you *could* have chosen not to install it in a custom install, I believe.



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10.3: See some of the hidden Access Card features
Authored by: msk on Nov 13, '03 09:35:39AM

In contrast I wanted to install it and couldn't find it in the custom install, instead I manually installed it from the package on CD#3. Was it already installed by the standard custom choices? I don't know.

Side note: verion 1.0 of this software is available for order on the Apple Store but they fail to mention that that package is for Mac OS 10.2 and crashes 10.3 -- of course I ordered 10.3 and the v 1.0 software on the same order.



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10.3: See some of the hidden Access Card features
Authored by: msk on Nov 13, '03 09:56:52AM

And in OS X 10.2 all that wasted space for those languages and fonts that I didn't need. All that space for those tiny markets just so it would be convenient for them.

Basically if you are a power user you know what files and directories to delete, the word in this thread is that virtually everything related to CAC is in one directory. You needed a really fancy script to clean up the extra language files in 10.2 and every third party program has it's own stack of language files.

All this is assuming that a standard install installs the CAC files, I have not confirmed that, I've done five custom installs (on four computers) and there was no choice for installing or not installing the CAC files, so I manually installed them on one computer. I'll check the other three computers and see how much wasted space this amounts to.



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