Re: Mac OS X's disk compressor?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Mac OS X's disk compressor?
Date	2016-03-30 06:33 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2016-03-30, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Does Mac OS X come with its own internal disk compressor like Windows 
> for its NTFS? It would be nice to compress my work's MBP (Retina; early 
> 2013; Mac OS X v10.10.5/Yosemite)'s 249.78 GB SSD and losing a little 
> speed (can't be much with flash drives). From what I read online, it 
> doesn't exist without a 3rd party? :(
>
> Tia. :)

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Latenitesoft made a Mac application called Clusters that used an OS X
file system compression mechanism built into OS X 10.6 or later to
automatically compress specified folders, the contents of which are
decompressed on the fly when they are accessed. I used it up to Yosemite
without issue. I'm not sure if it's compatible with El Capitan though.
It was last updated in 2013.

<http://www.macworld.com/article/1167462/clusters_compresses_files_and_creates_space.html>

<http://clustersapp.com>

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