Hi,
On 26/01/16 09:47, Vincent Habchi wrote:
I was under the impression that Apple already compressed the files and programs
installed with the operating system, using HFS compression, ever since taking
up less disk space was listed as a feature of Snow Leopard.
Yeah, I thought so too, but I also have the impression that may not always work
as advertised after a few updates have been applied. Easy enough to check with
`ls -lO` (/usr/bin/ls that is).
I’ve applied René method, disabling SIP while compressing /Applications. It
gave me some significant savings, thus I surmise all the applications are not
compressed. Xcode is, though, but things like iWorks (Pages, etc.) are not.
I am not space savings in Snow Leopard were the result of using file
compression. I’d rather wager Apple get rid of some universal code (ppc/ppc64)
in 10.6. 10.5 was the final version usable with ppc, AFAIR.
I have in the past used Xslimmer to save a fair amount of space on old
OSX versions where PPC versions etc. where still shipped.
http://www.xslimmer.com/
With it you can slim down fat binaries to the exact version you require
(PP, 32bit, 64bit) but also remove, if you want, all the
internationalization a lot of applications come with. Some applications
can really be reduced in size...
Chris
p.s. I have nothing to do with them...
Vincent
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