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In article <1992Nov2.185259.13181@panix.com>, imran@panix.com (Imran Anwar)
wrote:

> 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?

You can change the big/small to anything else you want (I use a bullet for
small and an asterisk for Big), or you can use a label for expand or don't
expand.  You can also set the time frame to one month; so any file used at
least once a month won't be compressed.  If you really want to remove it,
turn it off, using its control panel.  Then use Magic Menu to expand the
files that it had compressed; you can do this with folders to expand
everything within the folder.  The only problem with this method is that it
would also expand any .sit files.

> 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.

I've never had any problems with it recompressing files that are already
compressed; nor have I had the time-delay problems you are experiencing. 
How long of an idle time did you set it for?

> 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 don't use Microphone or Word Perfect, but it has not caused CIM to crash
on my computer--in fact, it has not caused anything to crash.

> 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

The upgrade comes with SpaceSaver also.  You do not have to install it,
though.

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