-=PCTechTalk=- Re: 2 external hard drive quetions plus a new one

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


----- Original Message ----- 
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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