https://github.com/goodbest/OfficeThinner

save your disk space with Office 2016 for Mac
https://github.com/goodbest/OfficeThinner

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save your disk space with Office 2016 for Mac

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/goodbest/OfficeThinner
• Owner: goodbest
• Archived: true
• Created: 2015-12-08T13:12:55.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-08-26T03:10:29.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-03T23:45:45.118Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Shell
• Size: 87.9 KB
• Stars: 452
• Watchers: 29
• Forks: 59
• Open Issues: 7
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Things You Must Understand Before Using:

Read it twice, please:

https://github.com/goodbest/OfficeThinner/issues/7

# OfficeThinner

Save your disk space with Office 2016 for Mac.

Nearly 2.9GB HDD/SDD space can be saved.

![compare](fig_compare.jpg)

## Attention!

- This script is only for `Office 2016 for Mac`, tested on 

  - version `15.16 (151105)`

  - version `15.17 (151206)`

  - version `15.18 (160109)`

  - version `15.25 (160817) x64`

- Use at your own risk.

- Read the code before you run.

- Make sure all the 5 Office Apps are in the same version.

## Usage

```

sudo bash -c "curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/goodbest/OfficeThinner/master/OfficeThinner.sh | bash"

```

- As Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac is installed with `root` on `/Applications`, you have to run this script with `sudo`.

- The backup files are located at `~/Desktop/OfficeThinner`, you can do whatever you like with them if everything is fine.

- Everytime after you install Microsoft Office Updates, you may have to re-run this script. 

## Explain

Some large-sized duplicate files exist in `Word.app`, `Excel.app`, `PowerPoint.app`, `Outlook.app` and `OneNote.app` in Office 2016 for Mac.

It's wasting your precious HDD/SSD space as these files are just 5 duplicate copies in these apps.

This script moves the following duplicate files from Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote into a backup directory on your desktop (you may later delete them safely), and then soft link neccesary paths back to the real files in Word.app alone.

- /Contents/Resources/Fonts (<=15.16)

- /Contents/Resources/DFonts (>=15.17)

- /Contents/SharedSupport/Proofing Tools

- ~~/Contents/Frameworks/MicrosoftOffice.framework/Versions/A/Resources~~