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Overview

When clipboard compression is on, Compresto watches your clipboard. Copy a file in Finder or take a screenshot to the clipboard, and Compresto compresses it in the background and puts the compressed file back on the clipboard, ready to paste.

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How to enable

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Open Settings > Folder Monitoring
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Turn on Auto-compress clipboard contents
The setting is off by default. Once enabled, it stays on across app launches.

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What gets compressed

Supported file types: video, image, GIF, PDF, and EPUB.
PDFs are skipped if Ghostscript isn’t set up.

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Settings used

Clipboard compression uses your Drop Zone settings, including its Compression settings mode and output folder. If Drop Zone is set to a preset, clipboard compression uses that preset too. Clipboard compression never removes the original file, and it doesn’t use target file size.

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After compression

  • The compressed files are copied back to the clipboard, so you can paste them right away
  • A notification tells you where the files were saved
  • If AI renaming renames the output, the clipboard is updated with the new file
Copy several files quickly and Compresto groups them into one batch. Files copied while a job is running are queued.