A client’s hard drive has 5 GB of old PDF invoices and Word forms. Without installing software, you run the portable suite, achieving a 70% reduction. The client immediately recovers 3.5 GB of space, and you leave no software behind.
While FileMinimizer Suite 80 Portable is powerful, it is not perfect. As a legacy portable tool, there are significant caveats:
For photographers and web designers, the suite includes a batch image processor. It can resize dimensions, change color depth (e.g., 24-bit to 8-bit for PNG), and apply lossless or lossy compression. The "preview window" shows exactly how much space you’ll save before processing.
Version 80 claims to compress video, but the portable version usually fails with .MP4 files, throwing a "Codec missing" error. Use this for documents and images only.
Version 8.0 represents a mature stage in the software's development, offering a robust set of features: