Why is 8.2.5 smaller in size than my previous versions?

[murgatroid]

grrrr

[dancing Ray]

´cause it is more streamlined

You are aware of the two dl options: with sounds vs. programm only?
And finally: why bother when it works?

[dazzer]

After they removed a lot of bugs the code size was subsequently smaller...

[pencilrocket]

After they removed a lot of bugs the code size was subsequently smaller...

Yes "a lot of" bugs.

[Mixikyr]

Deleted post.

[murgatroid]

I wrote out a longish post then deleted it.

In a nutshell what annoyed me was that all my previous versions weigh in at over 1.1gb's.
I'm on a mac btw.

I found out the difference is because when I show package contents in my older Live versions, in the 'App Resources' folder > "Default Packages", there are about 700mb's of content that's not included in the 'program only' 8.2.5 download.

Since the 8.2.5 isn't an installer update that writes itself into an older version but rather a complete application copy, I was bothered by this.

So I downloaded the 'program + library' and lo and behold, it contains all the items as what are in the previous versions.

What bothered me is that if you d'l, the program only version, there's apparently no instructions or explanation for this. You see, Apparently this content is important because its in the 'program+library' download and in all the previous versions as well. Yet no provision for getting that content from the previous version and into the new 8.2.5 'program only' folder contents.

[concept_control]

Eh.

On the download page it states that if you have 8.2.1 (if I remember rightly) you don't need to download the full version.

The Default Packages section you poked around in is what Live uses to install the Library the first time you run it. ie if you've just bought Live you'd want this for it to populate the Live Library correctly.

There's no conspiracy.

[abl385]

I thought the smaller the better?

[Hermanus]

come on guys everything is clear:

http://www.ableton.com/pages/downloads/products/suite8

Download Ableton Suite 8.
If you've already installed Suite 8.2, you can use the smaller, "Program only" installer.

cheers

[Rationalizer]

I thought the smaller the better?

It's not the size, it's how you use it.

[abl385]

Oh and by the way, it's not smaller in size. 8.2.2 had the same size (~540 MB on disk). I'm talking about the 'program only' installation.

[murgatroid]

Hmmmmm. I realize I'm not a software engineer and what seems logical to me may not apply.

I'm using Live, not the suite, but it has the same instructions.

If I understand what concept_control says, then all them items in the previous versions default packages folder, which are not in the program only download, are items that were accessed and installed elsewhere on my system for Live's use the first time I started Live.
And since thats all been done already when I first got Live, the newest versions doesn't need to have them in its default packages folder. Am I correct in this assumption?

See, my logic told me that if there's all that stuff (128 items in fact) in that folder within the application folder in the first place, then it must mean that Live needs it there in order to run.

[icedsushi]

Yeah I thought I was OK, but now with all the talk I don't quite get this either. I just switched to a new computer. I downloaded "program only", dragged my whole library folder from the old computer. I trashed the library folder that came with the program only download & put my library folder in place of it. Does that mean I have everything?

[merges]

I'm not 100% sure how this works but if I were to put my thinking cap on:

When you download Live for the *first time* you need to download the "program + sounds" version. The actual application in that case contains all the sounds that will be installed into the Library. The first time you run *that* version, Live *copies* all the crap from inside the app, to wherever your Library lives.

Then when you get a minor update to Live, you only need to download the program only. All the sounds etc. installed before just stay in the Library. You don't need to download those again; Live doesn't need to install them in the Library again.

I think when Live's sounds get updated, in major revisions, for instance, you'll simply have to download the "full" version again. But that doesn't seem to be the case for minor updates.

Does this sound right? It really should be explained more clearly on Ableton's website for the curious.

[icedsushi]

Yeah it sounds right I guess except the new sounds with the next full version thing. When I updated from Live 7 to Live 8, tech support told me to just drag my old library to the new version & replace what was there with the download. So I guess there were no new samples from Live 7 to Live 8? And perhaps any non sample "presets" are added to the library from the "Program Only" download. I do see some new presets in some of the Ableton instruments that weren't there in Live 7, so perhaps that's what happened.