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I have Bitwarden on my machine and looked at the reported file size, wich is 423,6MB. The downloaded file is much smaller, also the reported size on disk is much smaller too with 176,5MB

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I expected if anything that the size on disk would always be larger due to block size, but not smaller. How can this be?

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HFS+ (from 10.6 on) and APFS have support for transparent compression. This is applied automatically to the OS, App Store apps, and anything installed via pkg files.

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  • You can get a list of the compressed files by using the command find /Applications/Bitwarden.app -type f -flags +compressed -exec ls -ldO {} +. You can get a list of the files which are not compressed by using the command find /Applications/Bitwarden.app -type f -flags +nocompressed -exec ls -ldO {} +.
    – David Anderson
    Aug 30, 2021 at 11:05

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