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Free up drive space without losing content
Authored by: peragrin on Jun 05, '06 09:20:24AM

Applications don't compress a whole lot. Neither do images.

The solution delete your documents folder(backup first) and replace it with a compressed image file. The image will autoload whenever an alias to a file in there is opened or an application wants access to a file it knows is in there.

I do the same thing with an encrypted image. I moved the data files a particular application autoloads everytime it starts up to an encrypted image. When the application launches it asks for the encrypted image password and then finishes loading after the image is mounted.



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Free up drive space without losing content
Authored by: adrianm on Jun 05, '06 12:48:09PM

Applications can compress a lot, especially as most of the content textual resources or uncompressed executables.

Probably the best way to slimline apps is to remove all the languages you don't use, or even remove the architectures you don't have (ppc on intel and intel on ppc). These hints are almost certainly documented elsewhere on this site.



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