Xslimmer also has an online database which blacklists applications that cannot be slimmed and they regularly update their database so you don’t really have to worry. Things run as they should be and I ended up moving my backup to Trash bin before I wrote this review away.
The slimming process itself is quite simple and you can monitor the progress of the slimming process:Īt the end, I found that applications are still running as normal and I haven’t detected any anomalies at all for at least a week so far. Since I felt a bit scared, I did a backup before I let Xslimmer “mess” my system around. So I clicked the “Slim!” button and a Warning window popped up: Don’t know about you, but 30 MB sounds quite a lot to me! The Microsoft Messenger can even be cut down to almost half of its original size. Now that’s a huge saver on a 128 GB drive space! If you have tons of applications (Aperture, Adobe products, etc), I’d bet that you will save so much more. In my case, Xslimmer reported that it could save me 867 MB out of 2.10 GB. These little things will end up being hundreds of Megabytes (if not more). Xslimmer lists all applications, along with the size and the projected size after the slimming process (click to enlarge):Īlthough reducing an application from 3 MB to 1.5 MB may not sound much, imagine having lots of small applications in the machine. My MacBook Air is currently taking up 17 GB of space (this was taken before I installed Google Chrome, a couple of games, and a few other small productivity apps):Īnd I haven’t even stored my photos and music collections on it yet.Ĭurious at how much space can Xslimmer reclaim, I ran the app and greeted with the main window:
Thankfully, Xslimmer delivers that expectation really well. I just want to open Xslimmer and let it do its own thing (most of us want the same thing too).
#DUPE FOR MAC POST HASTE MAC OS#
The best of all, Xslimmer works for newbies like me who don’t understand much about the technicalities underlying the Mac OS system. Now those are some features! Removal of language files is a familiar concept for me but removing codes that do not fit with my machine architecture sounds quite new (whack my head for being ignorant, perhaps?). This is great, but how many of those do you need? Xslimmer allows you to select how many languages you want to preserve in your apps and will remove the rest, recovering lots of precious free space from your disk.” ”Safari is available in more than a dozen languages, Adium in more than 20.
#DUPE FOR MAC POST HASTE CODE#
This is achieved by removing the code inside the Universal Binaries that does not fit with your machine’s architecture, a code that never gets executed and just wastes your disk space.” ”Xslimmer determines which code your machine needs and removes the rest.
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