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In article <iscjcw-261092152925@ajax.ucop.edu> iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu (Jerry Wilcox) writes:
>In article <laug.720129893@sfu.ca>, laug@fraser.sfu.ca (Christopher Lau)
>wrote:
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>Bottom line is that I'm sticking with AD and removing SS from my system.
>


I was stupid enough to order Stuffit 3.0 (instead of just upgradiing my
existing v2.0) and it came with SpaceSaver.   Just the worst nightmare
I have had.

Space Saver is a  STUPID program , STUPID STUPID STUPID.

I do not know how to get rid of it as when I removed it from the damned
system I could not access the files it had compressed.  It is so
time consumuing that it will take over the machine and not STOP even if
stop is clicked.  It causes repeated crashes on a machine that never 
creashed before.  It DELAYS ALL program operations as even the smallest
resouirce that the running program needs is compressed and has to be
expandd.  On top of that the big/small naming idea is STUPID.  What am
I supposed to do, rename all 1500 files I have onmy disk.  So do I run
BIG Wordperfect and BIG Microphone II etc etc?

The program does not keep track of what files are being used or not
That would be a better approach to stuffing stuff, nt just file creation
date, as all daily use applications I have eg WP, 123, Photosdhop. etc
obviously have dates older than the date/"before" period qualifier in
SS.

In addition, the program is SO STUPID it cannot even recognize what files
it has already compressed.  So I have three or four very large image files
on my disk and every fifteen minutes or so it recompresses those samefiles
over and over.  It just keeps Going and going and going - it is now
going back to MacConnection or Warehouse wherever I got it - AS SOON AS
I find out how to get the damned thing off the system without having any
permanently compressed files.

It causes Microphone to crash, Wordperfect to crash, and Compuserve Info
anager to crash - those are what I use daily - so I am not even sure what
else it causes problems with.

I have seen DiskDoubler and AutoDoubler at work and liked DD (not that
used to AD) but I think I will manually compress the files whenever I need
it done.  I hate having SS come up after a crash asking you t remove the
files it created in a
stupid Temporary Items folder - for me the only temporary item is this
program itself - pity though that Stuffit 3 has soime very useful file
transaltions built in - I will opt for the straight upgrade to 3.0
and get rid of this SpaceSaver HairRaiser program

Whew!  That was a lot of (compressed) steam :-)

Imran Anwar