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or an alternative compression program.
I want to compress my 4.4GB backup folder so I can fit it on a DVD.
Cheers in advance.
Any ideas how to increase the limit of a winzip file..
or an alternative compression program.
I want to compress my 4.4GB backup folder so I can fit it on a DVD.
Cheers in advance.
winrar
www.rarsoft.com
seriously, its one of the best programs made.
Last edited by Agent; 10-06-2004 at 10:45 PM.
Originally Posted by Saracen
yup me too agent, such a good utility compared to winzip which is pap in comparison
i treid to zip up 10gig with winrar the other day, took 6 hours on Normal, and only went down to about 9.6 gig.
HEXUS|iMc
iMc - it really depends on what you're compressing and how. A little bit of research can help you choose the best dictionary size and compression methods to use. For example, compressing lots of little files will benefit from a solid archive.
I'm with Agent - I prefer winrar and love the features, though for compatabilities sake I usually to right click > send to compressed folder if it's anything trivial.
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also, it depends on the file system. FAT32 has (iirc) a limit of 2gb per file.
if you've got lots of large files (movies, images etc) they can't be compressed
if you've got outlook pst files etc, you can run a compress operation on them in outlook to reduce the size a bit, but depending on the amount of movement in the pst, you won't really see huge gains.
I'm in favour of ace format, which winrar can handle quite well too - just make sure you bung the installer or commandline version preconfigured with a batch file to extract - will save on memory usage when restoring.
Im pretty sure its 2gb for FAT16 and 4GB for FAT32 ?
(2^32)-1 byte works out at one byte under 4 gig.
Or am i totaly wrong here ? ;p
ahh i was trying to compresses movies n vid files, that'll be why they didnt compress.
HEXUS|iMc
anyone tried that new 7-zip/7z compression?
no - what's it like?
btw iMc - any luck so far?
Ive not attempted it again tbh honest it takes to long! I think I need a DVD writer.
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