Is there anyway to trim Adobe CS3 fat

[daneoni]

As we all know the CS apps are quite meaty, i was wondering if there's anyway to strip the PPC code on Adobe CS3 apps and remove unnecessary languages to save space. I mean there are apps here that over 1GB...for one app

 

[ZunePod]

XSlimmer.

 

[miles01110]

TrimtheFat

 

[daneoni]

Will they all work without messing up the software in one way or another. Has anyone used this successfully with Adobe CS products?

 

[Cabbit]

Trim the fat worked very well for all my CS3 apps but broke Acrobat.

 

[thankins]

XSlimmer will not work with CS3 - it is blacklisted.

 

[SHIFTLife]

XSlimmer will not work with CS3 - it is blacklisted.

Isn't it just Acrobat that's blacklisted? I can't speak to whether the rest of CS3 is, I've got CS4 installed. However, XSlimmer worked on everything in CS4 with the exception of Acrobat and a few plugins.

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

I wouldn't try it, I'm pretty sure that some of them perform integrity checks on themselves. Like a poster above said, they're blacklisted by Xslimmer, so it will probably break it.

 

[MacGeekPro]

Just have a poke around in the program files... Be careful though, Updates will tell Adobe about what your doing..

Little Snitch.app ftw.

Yoshi

 

[daneoni]

I tried trimthefat and lets just say it had an opposite effect. I tried to trim AfterEffects and it jumped from 800+mb to 1.2GB!!

Yes it made the file BIGGER

*Goes to look for CS3 CDs for a re-install*