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- From: leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
- Subject: Re: Problems with SpaceSaver (vs. AutoDoubler)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.072905.17331@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <1k10gdINN5p@armory.centerline.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:29:05 GMT
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- In article <1k10gdINN5p@armory.centerline.com> chapman@centerline.com writes:
-
- I sent a similar responce to Scott via AOL, but for the net as well...
-
- >1) SS does not work well with CopyDoubler.
- >
- My understanding is that CD 1.0.1 should be much better behaved than
- 1.0 and may work better with SpaceSaver. However, you may find that other
- "finder speeder uppers" (SpeedyFinder7, CopyRIGHT, etc.) would also better
- serve your purposes and some even support copying SS files in compressed form.
-
- >2) "SpaceSaver Info..." from the SpaceSaver menu causes files compressed to
- >SpaceSaver to revert back to standard Stuffit Deluxe icons.
- >
- I have heard this report before but have not been able to verify it
- ourselves. I will, however, investigate it and you may also wish to check
- into the possibility of an extension conflict.
-
- >3) No way to halt a timely operation.
- >
- That is because it would leave your files in an "inconsistant" state.
- If you move a folder of "small" files into a "big" folder, those files should
- definately be compressed - if you interrupted, then things could end up in
- a BAD stat (ie. you copy a folder of compress files into the System folder,
- and then interrupt the progress - WHAM - compressed files where they do not
- belong).
-
- >Suppose you move a large unlabeled folder
- >out of a folder labeled "compress". You can get SS to skip some files, but you
- >cannot get it to stop the uncompress operation.
- >I still do not understand why it is uncompressing the files anyway,
- >I did not move them to a folder labeled "uncompress"...
- >
- No you did not move them into "uncompress", but you moved them out
- of "compress" which is almost the same. By moving them out of "compress" the
- files no longer had any "attributes" that would designate them as being
- compressed and as such they were expanded.
-
- >4) I couldn't not figure out how SpaceSaver works with nested folders.
- >
- It's all pretty simple. "BIG" (uncompress) always takes precidence
- over small since that way you can not put compressed files into a "big"
- folder (like the system folder).
-
- >5) No way (in idle-time compression) to compress files which have not been USED
- >(as opposed to modified) in a given amount of time. It would be great to have
- >my infrequently used applications remain compressed, but the ones I do use on a
- >day-to-day basis remain uncompressed.
- >
- NONE of the compression software does this since the Macintosh OS does
- not store this information - only the last modified date. We could maintain
- this info ourselves, but that would require a (possibly HUGE) file to be
- created to store that info and since we are trying to save space, putting
- a large file on your disk wouldn'[t make much sense ;).
-
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