Re: El Capitan keep installer

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: El Capitan keep installer
Date	2015-10-03 18:12 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2015-10-03, John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 10/2/15   PDT 4:17 PM, David Ritz wrote:
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>> On Thursday, 01 October 2015 21:40 -0000,
>>   in article <d75nihFrf6dU1@mid.individual.net>,
>>   Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
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>>> On 2015-10-01, John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> Didn't some previous versions save just by moving its location,
>>>> then running it?
>>
>>> Not sure what you are asking. You don't *have* to compress it. You
>>> can simply move it if you want. But as soon as you run the installer
>>> and let it do the installation, it deletes parts of it during
>>> installation. So I find compressing it first thing give me a single
>>> file I can easily copy anywhere I want (or archive for later).
>>
>> Nothing is deleted, unless the installer is run from /Applications.
>> If it's run there, the entire installer application gets deleted,
>> following successful completion of the installation.  If the installer
>> is run from a different directory, it will still be in place and
>> unaltered, following installation.
>>
>> IIRC, zipping the installer .app takes longer than copying the file to
>> another location and provides little, if any additional compression.
>> The zipped file may even be slightly larger.
>>
> Heh. The "Compressed" version shows the same size as the original....

There are other benefits to zipping it.

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El Capitan keep installer John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-10-01 11:46 -0700
  Re: El Capitan keep installer JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-01 14:54 -0400
    Re: El Capitan keep installer nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-01 15:45 -0400
      Re: El Capitan keep installer ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-10-01 16:48 -0500
        Re: El Capitan keep installer Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-01 21:51 +0000
        Re: El Capitan keep installer nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-01 18:41 -0400
  Re: El Capitan keep installer Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-01 19:05 +0000
    Re: El Capitan keep installer Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-01 20:43 +0000
      Re: El Capitan keep installer John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-10-01 14:11 -0700
        Re: El Capitan keep installer Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-01 21:40 +0000
          Re: El Capitan keep installer David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2015-10-02 18:17 -0500
            Re: El Capitan keep installer John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-10-02 19:33 -0700
              Re: El Capitan keep installer Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-03 18:12 +0000
      Re: El Capitan keep installer ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-10-01 16:50 -0500
        Re: El Capitan keep installer Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-01 21:53 +0000
          Re: El Capitan keep installer JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-01 18:10 -0400
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