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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 351937" data-attributes="member: 3889">As Kash said, I regained 35 or 85 (I forget which) megabytes by dropping the hard-drive icon on a freeware app called TrimTheFat. You can download it at verstiontracker or macupdate.It's probably the one he referred to that removes the unneeded code in universal binaries. I have a G4, so in my case, it yanked all the Intel code.Once you've started it but before using it, go to the preferences and set it so it deletes the unneeded versions. Otherwise, both versions separate, but each remains on the hard drive.I didn't set the preferences to delete the junk code and ended up with two applications of each. For instance, I ended up with Firefox and Firefox-U, meaning Firefox Universal, I assume. I trashed all the apps ending in -U, but there were a lot of them.If you drop the entire drive's icon on TrimTheFat's window, it might take a few minutes to do the job. There's no progress bar, and I thought it had crashed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 351937, member: 3889"] As Kash said, I regained 35 or 85 (I forget which) megabytes by dropping the hard-drive icon on a freeware app called TrimTheFat. You can download it at verstiontracker or macupdate. It's probably the one he referred to that removes the unneeded code in universal binaries. I have a G4, so in my case, it yanked all the Intel code. Once you've started it but before using it, go to the preferences and set it so it deletes the unneeded versions. Otherwise, both versions separate, but each remains on the hard drive. I didn't set the preferences to delete the junk code and ended up with two applications of each. For instance, I ended up with Firefox and Firefox-U, meaning Firefox Universal, I assume. I trashed all the apps ending in -U, but there were a lot of them. If you drop the entire drive's icon on TrimTheFat's window, it might take a few minutes to do the job. There's no progress bar, and I thought it had crashed. [/QUOTE]

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