TrimTheFat is a simple, silent drop-launch utility to strip the code for the architecture(s) you're not using from a Universal application. Please note the low version number. It's a work-in-progress being released so people have something in-hand and to encourage feedback.
What's New
Version 0.7:
- Added an updateable "blacklist" to bypass the growing number of apps that refuse to run after detecting apparent tampering with the executable.
Requirements
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later
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| Downloads:19,655 |
| Version Downloads:16,565 |
| Type:Utilities : File Management |
| License:Free |
| Date:15 May 2006 |
| Platform:PPC 32 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price:Free |
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TrimTheFat is a simple, silent drop-launch utility to strip the code for the architecture(s) you're not using from a Universal application. Please note the low version number. It's a work-in-progress being released so people have something in-hand and to encourage feedback.
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semioticmonkey reviewed on 06 Feb 2008
One window, drag application, done. No buttons to push, no icons. You can't batch operations (as Xslimmer does), but it is not a real problem after all.
start fast.
maybe some preferences about the language to keep would be a good feature.
if you want go the terminal route here is a good place to start
http://lipidity.com/apple/cleaning-apps-mac-os-x/
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Tomis reviewed on 20 May 2007
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That being said, it is pretty awesome - I saved over 1 GB!
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St00pid-M0nk3y reviewed on 19 Nov 2006
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My computer is still stable... and lean.
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ShotgunWeddings reviewed on 15 May 2006
¥ For rookies it creates a backup before trimming, cool!
¥ Simple interface, cool!
And save lot's of disk space wasted on bloated applications! Very cool!
Got back over 288 MB's in trimmings!
Worked flawlessy with an eMac 384 MB's on Tiger 10.4.6
Keep up the great work!
I didn't mean to indicate that it was. A bug, in my book, is unintended behavior. As far as I can tell, Speed Download's behavior after trimming was quite intentional.
"While some application work well; not all applications work well after they've been trimmed."
In this case, the application apparently detects that the executable file (not code but file) has been modified and presents a message to the user asserting that it has been corrupted. There's no way eliminating code which is never even loaded into memory from the executable container should have any impact on the reliability of an app.