To work around this, advanced “binary strippers” maintain a regularly updated “don’t-touch-me” list of apps, but it’s still a Russian roulette - odds are that some apps may stop working after such an “optimization”. If such an app finds itself modified, it thinks it has been cracked and quits immediately. It happens because some developers (Adobe, for instance) add integrity checks into their apps as an anti-piracy measure. In the real world we happen to live in a typical picture looks like this: you run a “binary stripper”, it reports saving you lots of disk space, but in a day or two you find out that some of the apps simply no longer work! That sucks. Why not just remove redundant localizations or support for processors you don’t even have? That shouldn’t be too hard, right? That also has a cost of extra space being taken by data you don’t really need. In addition to that, most Mac applications are localized, so a single application can be used by, say, both English and German users. These applications contain two versions of the same app and you’ll likely never ever need one of them. In order to support both architectures many developers distribute their applications as universal binaries, also known as “fat binaries”. As you may know Apple has switched from PowerPC processors to Intel a few years ago, but there’re still lots of old Macs with PowerPC processors. There is a way to nearly half the space occupied by the apps (not games, unfortunately :D). Loving Steam games? Then add about 9 GB for Team Fortress 2, 8 GB for Left4Dead and 2 GB for Killing Floor or Portal and so on and so forth. And these are just daily use apps like iTunes (150 MB) or iPhoto (330 MB). Look at the /Applications folder and you’ll see that many Mac apps are sized 100-500 MB. Let’s see what you can do about this… Huge apps and fat binaries Gigabytes of movies, music, ever-growing picture archives and other “needful things” easily get out of control, especially if you use your Mac for editing movies, making music or simply download lots of data from torrents the web. Thank you for creating an otherwise excellent service.No matter how large is your hard disk, sooner or later you’ll run out of space. It’s a shame because the app is otherwise perfect for use with easy instructions. But the fact that a simple user error makes this app essentially soft locks you from installing any further fonts on your device makes this app virtually unusable. I understand that it’s probably outside the scope of this app to allow duplicates of a font, and that I’d probably have to delete the profile on my device before re-installing it to *remove* a font. Keep in mind - if you forget to re-install a font then any notes taken WITH that font on your device will be broken. The only way I’ve found to do this is to delete and re-download the entire app, re-import all of the fonts (very carefully as to avoid duplication) and then re-install the profile. This wouldn’t be an issue, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to delete a font from the install list in the app. Works great overall! But if you import a font twice (even if you’ve accidentally downloaded the same front from 2 different sites) then trying to install will give you an error message.
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