risky Posted February 28, 2005 CID Share Posted February 28, 2005 Well I have a few gigs of files I dont really use, but I do not want to remove the files, whats the best compression technique Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MICROWAVE Posted February 28, 2005 CID Share Posted February 28, 2005 If you are running Windowes XP the easiest way is to highlite the file and right click it and go down to ...send to compressed (zip) Folder and thats it. When you next open the file just extract it to where you want it......... good luck... Microwave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
risky Posted February 28, 2005 Author CID Share Posted February 28, 2005 Do you know if its normal for compression of 9.6 gigs to take 4 hours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingzero2309 Posted February 28, 2005 CID Share Posted February 28, 2005 lol...yea...that sounds kinda normal wen i tried compressing a bunch of Office2003 installation files (it was taking up a little more than 1 gig for all the installation files and whatnot), it took what seemed to be like 30 minutes (this was with winrar), so yea...9.6 gb probably would take a while i guess it also depends on how many files there are, im guessing if it was just like 1 9.6 gb file, it would be a little faster than a thousand files that add up to 9.6gb[but dont quote me on this...] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MICROWAVE Posted February 28, 2005 CID Share Posted February 28, 2005 Do you know if its normal for compression of 9.6 gigs to take 4 hours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
risky Posted February 28, 2005 Author CID Share Posted February 28, 2005 Ok well to finish things off, compressing a folder with video files or the files themself will NOT conserve space! <-- n00b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted March 4, 2005 CID Share Posted March 4, 2005 Ok well to finish things off, compressing a folder with video files or the files themself will NOT conserve space! <-- n00b Dont i wish it did! 140GB of video, and it hardly compresses at all. Same with installation files. Text files are the only files that compress really well. Too bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamafamily Posted March 4, 2005 CID Share Posted March 4, 2005 thats the bad thing with Video files....so big I have a stack of Digital tapes that I need to put on my computer, edit, burn to DVD and then re-archive... They are like 12GB/hour and I have about 20 tapes... I should be able to edit them from an hour down to about 10 minutes (2GB) Then I should be able to archive the edited version on DVD and keep the original in its tape format... thats the plan anyway bama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted March 4, 2005 CID Share Posted March 4, 2005 you might want to try winrar.. it seems to do a better job than winzip and that utility that microsoft offers.. however, it is a third party file extention.. .rar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamafamily Posted March 4, 2005 CID Share Posted March 4, 2005 Winrar is what I use.... it has the ability to do Zips also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted March 4, 2005 CID Share Posted March 4, 2005 right.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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