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majordude

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I have Parallels (GREAT PRODUCT by the way!) and just saw that they have this thing called Compressor. Does this work? Anyone have any personal experience with it? :confused:
 

M@lew

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Parallels automatically compressors my HD for me, and it does a pretty good job of it too. I think it got an 8GB one down to around 4 - 5.
 

thewhitehart

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It's great. My Feisty Fawn virtual machine is compressed to 2.36 GB from an 8 GB maximum size. It set this up automatically for me when I first made the virtual machine, and I didn't notice that it did it until I command +i'd on the virtual machine.

I guess it works just like Disk Utility's sparse image method for making disk images.
 

majordude

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Parallels automatically compressors my HD for me, and it does a pretty good job of it too. I think it got an 8GB one down to around 4 - 5.

The program runs inside Windows (not in OSX), right?

I think I will buy it because I have limited disk space. :(

Thanks for the feedback! :D
 
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