You, an expert Mac user, may be fine with the way things are. But for some users, the Mac’s windowing metaphor has led to confusion and frustration, whether it’s windows covering other windows or hidden or minimized windows being unfindable. For decades, it’s been a huge productivity boost to savvy Mac users, since it allows multiple panes of information of arbitrary sizes to be arranged arbitrarily on a user’s screen. Managing multiple overlapping windows has been a defining feature of using a Mac since 1984. Stage Manager: Another crack at windowing Stage Manager lets you group windows together, while displaying groups as thumbnails on the edge of the screen. But it’s a long summer, and there’s a lot more to be done (and many more words to be written) before macOS Ventura arrives this fall. It’s not that the small stuff doesn’t matter-it can matter a lot. In this first look at Ventura on the occasion of its release in a Public Beta, I’m going to focus on the big stuff. And it’s thrown out the venerable System Preferences app, a part of Mac OS X since the early days, and replaced it with a new System Settings app that’s reminiscent of iOS. It’s recognized that families might want to share their iCloud Photo Libraries. It has enlisted the optics of the excellent cameras on the iPhone to act as a substitute for often-lackluster Apple webcams. In Ventura, Apple has added an entirely new way to manage the many windows can can litter our screens. There are dozens of small changes, and if one of them hits an app or feature you rely on, the change may make (or break) the entire upgrade for you. On the small side, it’s improved search in Spotlight and Mail, expanded Handoff support to include FaceTime calls, and provided some much-needed new features to Messages. If you're really hurting for space, I'd recommend turning on optimized photos with iCloud Photos for what you store on your internal SSD drive, and then keep a cheap large external HDD for the originals.Apple’s macOS Ventura, an update due to ship this fall that has arrived Monday as a public beta preview, is full of both little feature refinements and big swings at improving Mac productivity. The TL DR: here is that we get "taxed" 5-10% for much greater efficiency in speed in use and a lot of compelling features (non-destructive editing, Faces, Places, and other metadata based functionality). The remaining amount of data related to metadata and the database all is either needed for a feature (like Faces and Places) or general functionality. Technically, you could eliminate this if you really wanted, but the benefit to being able to go back and change edits is a pretty compelling reason to keep that data, combined with the degradation that would occur with repeated edits. The second largest amount of data is probably going to be related to non-destructive editing. Remove those and browsing your library becomes impractically slow as it ends up having to load in large image files and then render them at the size you're viewing at. I have a bit of insight into what this "redundant" data is, and what it would mean to remove it.įirst, a lot of it has to do with creating alternative views (thumbnails) of your images. or at least as similar as could be at the time on Windows. I worked with a startup many years ago that did something similar to iCloud Photos. My personal library is about 250GB and that has about 35GB of what you're calling redundant information. Your situation does sound very typical, if not absolutely average. The offending storage hogs are thumbnails caches and facial recognition stuff that Photos creates by itself! Trouble is, my Photos Library is beyond 46 GB! Photos clogged my SSD with 11 GB of redundant information, related to my own media! That, combined to Apple asking an arm and a leg for better storage options on its MacBooks, makes for a preposterous situation!īefore anyone says anything, I don’t have duplicated data, or edits. As of now, I have 35 GB of photos and home videos (as stated by iCloud and the size of the Masters folder), which I believe to be somewhat typical. Apple would do well to find a better solution to Photo Library.
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