Re: El Capitan keep installer

From	John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: El Capitan keep installer
Date	2015-10-02 19:33 -0700
Organization	Sept. all the time
Message-ID	<munemd$7m2$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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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....

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  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
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        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
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    Re: El Capitan keep installer nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-01 19:14 -0400
    Re: El Capitan keep installer Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-02 00:46 +0000
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