Why are tiny files taking up so much space?
———————————————— This is often a big surprise to people who have just purchased large hard drives. Open TeachText, type a period, and save the file to the hard drive. On a 540 megabyte hard drive, the Finder will report that this file occupies 9 kilobytes. If I copy the same file to a 160 megabyte hard drive, the Finder will report that the file is only 4 kilobytes when stored on the smaller drive. If you transfer all of the data from your 250 MB hard drive to your new 1 GB hard drive, the data may use much more space on the new drive. How much depends on the number and size of your files. This is a perfectly normal phenomenon that has to do with something called allocation blocks. Warning: analogy ahead Most people think of a hard drive like a room, but it’s more like a room filled with shoe boxes. Big files are split into shoe box-sized pieces and spread across multiple shoe boxes. A small file is placed in a shoe box by itself. Only one file can be in
