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Rar file size reducer11/10/2023 ![]() ![]() When your hard drive is out of space, you may need to delete some files and folders, Since some files may be important and you don't want to delete them, your best choice is to compress files to free up space. But allegedly Compress interferes with windowsupdate.Compress/Decompress Files and Folders without Installing Software on Windows PC In the best of worlds you can compress your Documents directory and %programfiles% to save disks space. Imagine compressing a database file? Great – it has to be unravelled and recompressed by Windows each time you make a record change.Īllegedly Compress works / (worked?) good with CAD programs where you have huge parts libraries with thousands of small component files. The practical use of Compress is less nowadays as we collect lots of images and sound and these can’t be compacted more, and Compress is a tradeoff between process speed and file size. And be aware that compaction ratios aren’t that impressive. It is possible to select so that compressed files show up in another colour in file explorer, for your convenience. ![]() And I don’t know if that Compression attribute follows along when that file is copied to another (NTFS) disk. Your Compressed file will only take less disk space when stored on that disk it was Compressed on. Because NTFS has the ability to do that, and FAT / FAT32 cannot. Please everybody, be aware that this Compact is a bit like the old Drivespace in DOS: it does NOT create a NEW file, like a zip file, but it stores the same file, or the whole directory, in a compressed manner. To un-compress all the files in the current directory and also in its sub directories: compact /u /s * To un-compress all the files in the current directory compact /u * ![]() To compress all the files in the current directory and also the sub directories and the files within them recursively compact /c /s * ![]() To compress all the files in the current directory compact /c * Mydoc.txt 2779705 : 348160 = 8.0 to 1 ġ files within 1 directories were compressed.Ģ,779,705 total bytes of data are stored in 348,160 bytes.ġ files within 1 directories were uncompressed. New files added to this directory will not be compressed.Ġ are compressed and 1 are not compressed.Ģ,779,705 total bytes of data are stored in 2,779,705 bytes.Ĭompress a file from command line: compact /c filename ![]()
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