How Many Ways Can You Compress Files On Your Mac?
Things change. I remember when Mac hard drives were small and file compression tools all the rage, helping us to save precious disk space.
Whatever happened to Stuffit, that little utility that compressed files on the Mac? Mac OS X, Tiger or Leopard, doesn’t care much about compressing files these days.
Both Tiger and Leopard have a built in archiving system called .zip, which both compresses and decompresses files. In Tiger, the term was Archive, but Leopard goes.... (excerpted).
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squiggy said:
That’s not good advice. An external hard drive for archive purposes does NOT need to be FAT 32. Just format the hard drive as a Mac drive and archive your photos via drag and drop or any one of a dozen utilities that make it easy. There are utilities for Windows PCs which can read Mac files, if needed. Or, store your files online. There are about a dozen online back up systems these days.
macmeet said:
If you are using an external hard drive for both, Mac and PC, then you need to format it as FAT32. FAT32 does not support file sizes above 4gb. So if you have to store an image of a DVD (4gb +) or HD videos on the FAT32 drive, then archiving comes to the rescue.
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Derrick said:
I found a way to compress my mac project from a 30mb pdf, to a 1.1mb pdf! (I was so happy to figure this out). first convert your document (any document) to pdf, then open the pdf file and pdf viewer. then go file>save as> ...you should see a menu option called quartz filter, 2nd option from the bottom is “reduce file size”. select that option and hit save. I should work, it did for me.
Yah!