[quote='859331022, DTS Engineer, /thread/801297?answerId=859331022#859331022'] what are you actually trying to do here? [/quote] Compressing bloated text files and binaries from user land .app bundles, for sure. Space savings is usually ~50%. never intended for widespread use Really? I would count having all system .app compressed on everyone's Mac as widespread use. Moreover, everyone loves macOS's compressed .dmg! It's a shame the app bundle I dragged out of it, takes more than 2x the space than the distribution .dmg.[1] Transparent decompression for static data is also very welcome in a world of structured plain text as file format. you may also need to work around parts of the system that don't handle it properly Well, it sort of works out in the current state - I just need to extract the .zip somewhere, and then ditto --hfsCompression /tmp/Some.app ~/Applications to get a compressed version of it. Other than a waste of Total Bytes Written, it's fine. [1]: .dmg files are easy to deal wit
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App & System Services
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Core OS
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