DownSizer 1.1 review

DownSizer removes PPC and non-English language files from user selected applications.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 1510K Developer: Shawn McKenzie Price: $0.00 Updated: 15 Jun 2006

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DownSizer removes PPC and non-English language files from user selected applications.

INSIDE LOOK
This program does two things. First it makes a copy of the Application. It does
this without copying the Universal part of the binary, leaving you with just the Intel
portion. Secondly, it looks inside the Application resources and removes any non
English language files.
It does this using the basic ditto and find commands from Mac OS X itself. You
can read all about these commands in this document or by yourself in various
places.

WHAT NOW
What can I do with this? Get some space! If you clean up everything on your
hard drive there is a very good chance you can get gigabytes, yes gigabytes, of
space back.
Let me just give you some friendly advice though. There are some applications
that will appreciate you messing with their internal bits.

Hidden folders are hidden for a good reason.
Applications sometimes depend on one-another.
Libraries, Frameworks et cetera are off-limits.
Test, test and test some more before you throw away the original.