Mac OS X | System / Utilities | Maintenance / Optimization | Xslimmer

Xslimmer - 1.7.5

Strip PPC/Intel code from universal apps/localizations to save space.

Download Now

(File Size: 3.3M)

Free Product Alerts!

All Time:	(4.5)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	1.7.5
Release Date:	2009-09-21
License:	Shareware
Downloads (this version):	971
Downloads (all versions):	27,905
Price:	$14.95

Information Related to Version:

Broken Link? Newer Version? Tell us!

Product Description:

Xslimmer reduces the disk space taken up by Mac OS X applications removing localizations you don't need, and preserving just the Intel or PowerPC version of the code in Universal Binaries.

Xslimmer determines which code your machine needs and removes the rest. 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.

This is done in a safely way backing up your apps before slimming, downloading a "blacklist" of apps that check themselves, or allowing you to exclude any application, folder or path.

Xslimmer is compatible with Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger and Panther. Whatever your system, we got it covered.

Want to see for yourself? Grab your copy of Xslimmer now and try it out for free.

What's new in this version:

Xslimmer 1.7.5 fixes two rare crasher issues that were introduced in Xslimmer 1.7.4. First, Xslimmer became confused when trying to slim certain compiled Java classes, which looked like Universal Binaries containing several architectures when in fact they did not. In addition, Xslimmer would rarely (see details below) create HFS-compressed backups and applications that were not correctly flagged as compressed files, thus rendering them useless. This version fixes that problem retroactively, so those malformed backups can be used to restore the original apps.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

Feedback Summary:

This Version:
Overall Rating:	Not rated (0.0)	Features:	Not rated (0.0)	Support:	Not rated (0.0)
Ease of Use:	Not rated (0.0)	Quality / Stability:	Not rated (0.0)	Price:	Not rated (0.0)

Key to Types of Feedback:

Reviews Reviews Troubleshooting Usage Tips Developer Notes Commentary Featured Reviews

One glaring flaw? - Version: 1.7.4.1, 9/21/2009 06:36AM PST

Diks Toosl

This would suddenly become more worth buying if it would identify non-universal binaries & refuse to strip them of code (specifically, XSlimmer can't say 'oops, this is only PPC code, better NOT strip the PPC code from this file!, or User won't be able to run it at all'.

Allowing to the user to brute-force it is tolerable, but more in line w/ freeware than payware.