What do you recommend for Mac? Thanks. On 4/10/19, Simon Slavin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 Apr 2019, at 7:08pm, Peng Yu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/45010/transparent-file-compression-apps-for-macos >> >> I work on Mac. Would this be worthwhile to try? > > I do not recommend it. Two reasons: > > A) If you copy the file you get an uncompressed result. This is because > most functions do not know the file is compressed. They try to read the > file block by block and the operating system automatically hands them > uncompressed blocks. So if you copy your file to a Flash Drive or back it > up, you end up with the big version. > > B) Macs are moving, or have already moved, away from HFS+ to APFS. Although > HFS+ compressed files seem to work without problems in APFS Apple has not > announced support for this feature. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users >
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