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- From: jesse@cs.UAlberta.CA (Jesse Lee)
- Subject: How to reduce the size of catalog/extent file?
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- Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 07:53:40 GMT
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- Recently I downloaded more than one thousand files to my hard disk
- for temporary storage. Later I save them on floppies and delete them
- from my hard disk. Then I discover about 400K of my hard disk space is
- gone for the catalog file by running MacTools 2.0. I know as the number
- of files of my hard disk increases, the size of the catalog/extent file
- will grow. What I do not understand is as the number of files of my hard
- disk decreases, these files do not shrink in size.
-
- I know one method to recover those disk space: erase the hard disk and
- restore the files. But I certainly do not want to do it.
-
- Any suggestion?
-
- Jesse Lee
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