Articles tagged as “macos”

How to reduce the size of your VMs (macOS Update)


Lately I'm also running macOS virtualized for testing various apps. After some heavy usage the same problem popped up: the .vmdk uses way too much space on my quite small 256GB SSD. Currently is at around 70GB.

The process is similar to what I did on Windows and Linux i.e. write a null file that is erased at the e ...

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Tips: macOS save screenshots as JPEG in a different location

I'm not really sure why taking screenshots in macOS defaults to PNG file format. I just googled this and the "answer" was:

>MacOS captures screenshots using PNG as the default image format, which provides lossless compression and preserves image quality while creating relatively small files.

OK - I can understand ...

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