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In my on going quest to determine which disk compression utility should remain
on my hard disk (AutoDoubler or SpaceSaver), I decided to switch back to SS
when SS 1.0.3 was out (as suggested by Leonard Rosenthol). Anyway, I did post
my findings in a rather nasty (perhaps unnecessarily so). but I thought I should
post my findings here as well. Excuse me if some of this is old news, and excuse
me if I focus on my findings of SpaceSaver.

First of all, let me say that I do think 1.0.3 of SpaceSaver is *much* better
than the first release. However, many of the behaviour quirks are still present.

1) SS does not work well with CopyDoubler. Should I expect that they would ever
work together (CopyDoubler being from arch-rival Fifth Generation)? The result was
that files were uncompressed during the read, and re-compressed when writting 
(copying a folder label "Compress").

2) "SpaceSaver Info..." from the SpaceSaver menu causes files compressed to SpaceSaver
to revert back to standard Stuffit Deluxe icons. The original icons can only be
restored (as far as I can tell) by doing a "Get Info..." from the finder which
*still* results in the file getting uncompressed.

3) No way to halt a timely operation. 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"...

4) I couldn't not figure out how SpaceSaver works with nested folders. For example
(I am writting this from memory, but I think I remember the behavior) If you have
a folder labeled "uncompress" which contains another folder, you cannot get files
to compress in the nested folder (even if it is labeled "compress"). However, if
you label the outer folder "compress" and the nested folder "uncompress" then the
files will not compress. I would have expected that SpaceSaver would search the
folder hierarchy (starting with the folder containing the file) and stop as soon
as it finds a label that is relevent.

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.


I have not experienced any crashes, it does seem to be a 
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