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Article #1834Re: More SpaceSaver troubles
From: Scott Chapman, (Scott Chapman x2...
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:34
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:34
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I too have an update, which I feel is important.
It appears that many of the desktop file related problem I had reported the
other day (with regards to SS), were not caused by SS, as far as I can tell.
I removed all the desktop related files (I could have sworn I had done this
before!), and many of the problems went away (icons were restored, no more
"missing application" messages).
All in all, the behaviour was much more deterministic.
I still am having some problems with it, which Aladdin is aware of:
1) "Get Info" causes files to be uncompressed.
Aladdin is considering a hack that would understand the finder's intentions
and not uncompress the file (unlikely you will see this for a while).
2) No easy way to accuratly determine how much space is being save by compressed
files.
3) Files getting uncompressed when the desktop is rebuilt. It is likely you will
see a patch for this before too like (I hope!).
Other problems I have reported:
1) DiskFit Pro uncompresses the files when backing up.
2) Running a script did not "compress" files, it just stuffed them, resulting in
0% space saving in SD 3.0
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!centerline!divine!chapman From: chapman@centerline.com (Scott Chapman, (Scott Chapman x233)) Subject: Re: More SpaceSaver troubles Message-ID: <1992Aug12.133425.9872@centerline.com> Sender: news@centerline.com Nntp-Posting-Host: divine Reply-To: chapman@centerline.com Organization: CenterLine Software References: <1992Aug12.024606.14655@husc3.harvard.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:34:25 GMT Lines: 32