I am currently using a Mac OS X 10.5.7 at my job. For some odd reason the entire screen resolution has increased and is now too big for the actual moniter.
I have noticed this mainly with torrents, but also with other things. For example, if I download a 700MB movie, it'll download and take up 760MB on my mac. The exact same torrent will take up the 700MB listed on the download page on my Nexus 7, or on a Windows 7 desktop. I've also seen this space increase with photos from a digital camera (JPG format), movie files from Final Cut Pro, downloaded files like images, word documents, PDFs etc.
Mostly with small files the difference is negligible, usually amounting to a few kB. However, when the files are bigger, the difference is harder to ignore. Does anybody know why this happens? Is it because of the Mac OS X filesystem as opposed to NTFS and FAT on Windows or YAFFS2 and vFAT on Android? Or does Mac store files in a different way? I would prefer a canonical answer if possible.
Hey tisinva and welcome to the forum - If you hold down the control key and scroll up.it zooms in (gets bigger).and if you hold down control and scroll down.it zooms out (gets smaller and eventually back to normal). If your problem is that the window size is too big for your display, click-hold and drag the bottom right corner of the window to re-size it.
If you can't get to the bottom right corner, click-hold the taskbar of that window and move to the left until the bottom right corner is exposed. Hope this helps -GDF. Hi, Hi, I noticed starting in OS 10.4.11, you can use two fingers on the track pad to scroll. If you hold the control key and use two fingers on the track pad, the display zooms in when you move your fingers toward the screen. The display zooms out when you move towards the keyboard edge. If you use a single finger, the display pans up/down-left/right if you have the display zoomed in. You can control the behavior by opening system preferences, then click Keyboard & Mouse, then click Trackpad.
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