On 8/17/02 3:13 PM, Compact Macs at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gotta question here about salvaging software. On any number of compact and > other Macs that come across my bench. I occassionaly find application software > that includes the parenthetical term "...(trimmed)" in its name. Launching and > using these "trimmed" applications seems to be comparable to the regular > versions of the software. In each case, the "trimmed" software is lighter by > from a few kilobytes to mucho megabytes in size. So I assume that someone has > been at work with something like ResEdit. Or it may be this is a specially > marketed version of the software. I see this "trimmed" software on Macs from > schools, business, and Macs that have never been outside the home. And I see > it on all sorts of applications. My ramblings about Mac information sources > has not yet explained this "trimmed" thing. Any knowlege on this one?
That's a result of Spring Cleaning. It will "trim" off any unneeded part of an app that has fat binary code (that is, code for both 68k and PPC machines). If you have an app that you use on a 68k machine and you don't plan on transferring it to a PPC (or vice versa), that extra code is just sitting around eating up hard disk space. Spring Cleaning gets rid of it for you and appends the app name with "trimmed". -- *** Amber Rhea *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tangerinecs.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect open standards! -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
