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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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