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Compressed folder still same size . . .
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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I compressed a folder containing 177Gigs. After compression the .zip file is 177Gigs. I thought compressing made the folder smaller. That's what compression means right.
What am I missing?
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Join Date: Jun 1999
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It depends on what you're trying to compress. Some files lend themselves to compression and some don't.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Thanks. I compressing photos and videos. Not much point. I'll have to buy some hard drives.
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That's right. Photos and video generally don't lend themselves to much compression, unless you transcode them and sacrifice quality. Fortunately, hard drives aren't very expensive.
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Photos and videos are already lossy compressed, so they don't take well (or at all) to lossless compression.
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Yes, HDs are cheap, now that prices seem to be returning slowly to pre-Thailand-flood points. I also have this huge 150G vid folder, I've decided to off-load it to 2 externals, so that I can update my boot HD to a SSD.
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