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  1. 24th Oct 2004 16:22 #1
    skip2mylou
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    hello everyone,
    i am having a very difficult time with compressing folders on my computer. i right click a folder and i click SEND TO .zip FOLDER. everythings ok, until i check the properties of the folders and i realized ive only saved like 3 KBs or something like that. can anybody help me so that i can compress large files into exceptionally smaller ones?
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  2. 24th Oct 2004 16:37 #2
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    Try WinRAR. It may be a little more efficient. Of course your compression amount depends on your source. Some files are already compressed and won't go much further. (Such as video files)
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    does this mean i cant compress an AVI? because i wanna put 2 avis round 500MB each into a compressed folder ...
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    AVI is a container format and can contain various kind of videos. Chances are you got Xvid, Divx, or something similar which is already compressed and won't get much smaller by zipping.
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  5. 22nd Mar 2005 21:15 #5
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    gotcha, thats too bad. oh well
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    Same goes for MP3 files. The .ZIP is 1% smaller than the .MP3.
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    you should be happy! the file is as small as possible! otherwise it would have taken you 10x as long to download that movie

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    Originally Posted by greymalkin
    you should be happy! the file is as small as possible! otherwise it would have taken you 10x as long to download that movie

    thats a very good point, i never really saw it that way...
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