{"id":1901,"date":"2012-05-09T19:31:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2012-05-09T19:31:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:31:50","slug":"warning-os-x-lion-downloads-gigabytes-of-data-secretly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/09\/warning-os-x-lion-downloads-gigabytes-of-data-secretly\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: OS X Lion downloads gigabytes of data, secretly"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you “upgrade” to Lion, be aware that Apple will silently wipe your “auto install \/ update” settings, and start aggressively downloading every update it can find for every Apple app you use.<\/p>\n

In my case, this was gigabytes of data – I really don’t care (and don’t want) “upgrades” to PhotoBooth and other trash that Apple pre-installs. But, because Apple wants to force these on you, they’d already wasted large amounts of bandwidth (on my laptop – on a desktop broadband connection, I wouldn’t care), and reduced my internet browsing for a few days before I found this out.<\/p>\n

So … when you upgrade … remember to open “Software Updater”, and change the setting (that Apple has overwritten), back to “don’t check automatically”. Sadly, there’s no setting for “don’t download stuff unless I tell you to” – but at least turning off the auto-check avoids this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you “upgrade” to Lion, be aware that Apple will silently wipe your “auto install \/ update” settings, and start aggressively downloading every update it can find for every Apple app you use. In my case, this was gigabytes of data – I really don’t care (and don’t want) “upgrades” to PhotoBooth and other trash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}