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In article <iscjcw-261092152925@ajax.ucop.edu>, iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu
(Jerry Wilcox) wrote:

I greatly prefer the AD approach of compressing things unless you apply a
> "don't compress" label. The SS approach of compressing if you put "small"
> before or after the name is, IMHO, less effective. Yes, you can change the
> phrase, but it seems that no matter what I choose, someone names a program
> using that phrase. I left the setting to "small" until I got the
> application called "Small Screen" which then automatically got compressed
> and for some reason, trashed, by SS.

I haven't used AD, but I do use SS, so I'll restrict my comments to it.  I
set up the "always compress" prefix/suffix to a bullet (option-8), and the
"never compress" prefix/suffix to an asterisk (*).  I also set up two
labels for always and never compress (some files and folders can't have
their names changed).  Everything else gets compressed based upon how long
it has been since they were last modified (according to the modification
date of the file).  This gives me a great deal of control:  I have a label
and a prefix/suffix to choose whether to force or prohibit compression--and
the time since last used determines whether anything else gets compressed.

So, to emulate the AD method, described above, you set the time since last
modified to the minimum and then apply a "don't compress" label or
prefix/suffix to those files you want never to be compressed.

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