-=PCTechTalk=- Re: 2 external hard drive quetions plus a new one
- From: "Don Wilcox" <Dwilcox3@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:56:57 -0400
Compressing a drive or partition *might* save you space. It depends on what
is stored on it. If it is full of JPG or MPEG files that are already
compressed, compressing a drive will recover very little space (relatively
speaking). If it is full of text files and other uncompressed data files
then the space recovered can be enormous.
Don
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From: "Dolores" <dshelham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 9:20 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: 2 external hard drive quetions plus a new one
> addt'l info - and oh my, I can't believe it fact!
>
> For the heck of it while I was waiting to hear back from you, I started
> looking at the properties of both the externals in windows to see if I
> could
> see a difference and I did! The partition that was blue had a check mark
> next to (I don't know how it got there) to compress files to save space -
> when I unchecked it, I got a message asking if I wanted to uncompress and
> I
> said yes and the blue disappeared (well on part of it as I stopped the
> process to type this as was going to take another 35 minutes) So now my
> question is, what is the advantage of checking that box? If I did it to
> all
> my externals I assume they would all be blue (and probably take me 3 days
> to
> accomplish) but does it really save any space as I couldn't see a change
> in
> what little I did - thanks! Dolores
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