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It look bad, you should run a repair disk on your HD just in case, since you have already issue with your optical drive, I assume you got a +2 years old computer, your HD can have hiccup (bad sector).  Check if you have a lost & found folder in your root.

Before the recent release of the nanoBundle, I signed up to receive a free license for Squeeze. Actually, I tried to sign up 3 times before the deadline, but I never received the license. LateNiteSoft has no record of it either.

I've already installed the Squeeze preference pane, but I can't use it without the license. So I'd like to know how to get my license.

I previously bought MacHeist 3 and was pretty happy with it; however, now I'm a it hesitant to purchase another.

I hate to say this, but it's probably too late.  If you had posted your question during the giveaway I'm sure it would have been straightened out.  But it's been days since the deadline, and seeing as you didn't say anything before now, I can't help but wonder if you're simply trying to squeeze into the giveaway (pun intended).  Sorry if that isn't true, it's just how it appears.

NovaStorm Software || @NovaStormSW || @jfm429 || Dropbox + Extra Storage

"I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind."
- Alan Kay, inventor of Object-Oriented programming

Take note that it should appear in the loot page. If nothing else, give a look there.

䷟䷽䷏䷁ — Dying of the Light.

Miah, Nope, nothing appears in my loot page...

jfm429, I really did try three times to submit the form. It even forwarded me to Twitter where I left a tweet in my profile (on Feb 25th).

twitter<dot>com/jpfrantz; you can check.

Ah, yep, I can confirm that.  I stand corrected.  There is definitive evidence that, by all accounts, you should be compressin' with a full license of Squeeze this very second. 

Just to be sure, were you signed in when you tried it?  I'm not sure if that had anything to do with it, but it might.  (I do notice your account's older than the giveaway, so no problems there).

NovaStorm Software || @NovaStormSW || @jfm429 || Dropbox + Extra Storage

"I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind."
- Alan Kay, inventor of Object-Oriented programming

I'm pretty sure I was signed in, at least on the 2nd and 3rd attempts.

I would call this a simple "did not get license issue" and I would say the best option would be to ask via the new support system as there appears to be more options that just issues regarding the currently selling bundle.

Other than that, I'm not sure what else I can do to help.

Just be sure to be verbose. Link the tweet you did for one on the ticket.

䷟䷽䷏䷁ — Dying of the Light.

Thanks, I tried that, but the folks here at MacHeist couldn't help me. However, the nice people over at LateNiteSoft did give me a license after I filed a ticket with them. Problem solved!

Got the nanobundle2 and a friend mentioned squeeze.  Did a double take and found that it wasn't in my list.  Did I miss out?

Yes.

Squeeze was only available before the nanoBundle went on sale.

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Ok, thanks.

How stable is the compression in Snow Leopard? I am thinking to put my Parallels Desktop VM HDD image file there. Any opinion?

VM HDD compression is a bad idea.

Compression of files is best on the sort of things that you open a lot but don't write to. That would mean most if not all applications, documents, etc.

A VM HDD is a terrible idea because every time you write to a compressed file, it basically has to copy the compressed file to a non-compressed form and then write the changes. This also means that you would have to compress that HDD file every time you use it.

I'm pretty sure Parallels has volume compression. If you use this in conjunction with NTFS compression, you'll get about the best results you can expect without the serious slowdowns.

䷟䷽䷏䷁ — Dying of the Light.

Thanks. then how would it be stable compared to trusted NTFS compression. I certainly don't want to lose data over saving some space... is this trusted feature?

Absolutely. HFS+ has a built-in compression just like NTFS does. In fact, it's on some apps (anything that installed with Snow Leopard for starters; i.e. iCal, iTunes, etc) by default. Put simply, Squeeze is more of a frontend for this feature. I do believe that you can get the same results with terminal commands, but Squeeze does two other things that the terminal command wouldn't be able to: live updating (if you have a folder on the list and add an item to the folder, Squeeze will automatically compress it) and exclusion lists (it will be default ignore formats that don't compress very well or at all to save you time - such formats include MP3, AAC, AVI, MOV, you get the idea).

To run something that's compressed, you don't even need squeeze. That particular ability is coded into the system by Apple and they seem to trust their own tech enough to bundle their apps with it.

䷟䷽䷏䷁ — Dying of the Light.

I've been having issues with carbon copy cloner ever since using squeeze.  I get an error in carbon copy cloner, something to the effect of file i/o error.  Is there a known compatibility issue? 

Time machine seems to work fine but I haven't tested whether the actual back up are intact and functional.

Hey, the newest version was working great, but I just got a message that said that my demo has expired. I then tried re-inputting my license key and that worked for a day. Now, however, the application once again says that the demo has expired, and putting in the license again doesn't work. What should I do?