Once you have 10.6.8, you can upgrade straight to Lion, Mountain Lion, or Yosemite. It will give you access to the Mac App Store. Updating to 10.6.8 is necessary if you intend to install a newer version afterward, and a good idea anyway. You can also choose to run this Combo Updater (you still need 10.6.x for the updater to work). You will need to run a software update to get 10.6.8, the latest version of 10.6. Turns out I had two copies of a Win10 download, resulting in over 8.5 GB of Other space being used.) When in the Large Files or Downloads view, you can examine a file or move it to the trash by hovering over the file name. hoststatistics64() gets some information by variables with names like vmpagefoocount.But not all of these variables are taken into account, e.g. The disk at the above link ships with version 10.6.3. (The Reduce Clutter tool can be very helpful for examining and deleting files in the Downloads folder. TL DR: hoststatistics64() get information from different sources which might cost time and could produce inconsistent results. Therefore, if you have Leopard (10.5) or earlier, and have a Mountain Lion compatible Mac, you will have to upgrade to Snow Leopard first to get Mountain Lion or later, and you can skip Lion.
#GET INFO MAC SAYS 8.2GB PURGEABLE MAC OS X#
Mac OS X version 10.6.8 or later (for Mac App Store)Īpple has announced that users interested in upgrading to Lion (10.7) or later can do so from Snow Leopard (10.6) using the Mac App Store (10.6.6 or later required for the Mac App Store) without having to purchase or download the intermediate versions. Mac OS X version 10.6.6 or later (for Mac App Store) Intel Core 2 Duo, i3, i5, i7 or Xeon processor PowerPC G4, G5, or Intel processor (867 MHz or faster) PowerPC G3, G4 or G5 processor (300 MHz or faster) PowerBook G3 and G4 (except double-layer SD) Note the purgeable disk space (it should be less than 1 GB now) Remove the image files that you created in the.
Power Mac G3, G4 or G5 (except early and late 2005 models) You will see a picture similar to one below.