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Leevoy
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O.K. someone shed light on this scenario please.
I run Xp pro, cluster size is 512 bytes.
I downloaded some filters and some 1700 in one folder.
The ext was .ace so i downloaded the decompression app to use it as power desk and win zip don't support it.
When I unzipped they went from 2 megs to 50, yes 50 times their original size, 100 meg.
I decided to compress them back and stick em on my zip drive, which they zipped down to 1.87 megs.
The point is, when I download some zip files they unzip 3 times, 4 times, 10 times and in this case 100 times bigger.
I have tried myself to zip up 100 meg of files from my zip drive into a smaller file for some space and I am lucky to gain 4 meg of space.
Is it a fact they were compressed on fat or fat 32 and when hitting my 512 byte cluster ntfs drive explode to much larger size.
Can someone shed a little light on it, as I am quite impressed with win ace and would like to continue after the trial by buying it.
I run Xp pro, cluster size is 512 bytes.
I downloaded some filters and some 1700 in one folder.
The ext was .ace so i downloaded the decompression app to use it as power desk and win zip don't support it.
When I unzipped they went from 2 megs to 50, yes 50 times their original size, 100 meg.
I decided to compress them back and stick em on my zip drive, which they zipped down to 1.87 megs.
The point is, when I download some zip files they unzip 3 times, 4 times, 10 times and in this case 100 times bigger.
I have tried myself to zip up 100 meg of files from my zip drive into a smaller file for some space and I am lucky to gain 4 meg of space.
Is it a fact they were compressed on fat or fat 32 and when hitting my 512 byte cluster ntfs drive explode to much larger size.
Can someone shed a little light on it, as I am quite impressed with win ace and would like to continue after the trial by buying it.