can not seem to compress file or folder

[Robert J. Lafayette]

Have XP Home SP2.
NTFS drive.

Four PDF files about 15MB each,
and am trying to compress them to email them.

When I click on the folder, for example,
I do not have an option of creating new compressed folder.
I can only create a new folder and or a shortcut.

When I right click on the folder, properties, advanced,
and click on 'compress folder',
the folder remains the same size, about 60 MB.
but the folder name is now blue in color rather than black.

Can I compress PDF files from 60 MB to something I can manageably email?

Or do I not have the capability of compressing.

Thanks in Advance,
Robert

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

It sounds as if your ZIP folder associations are damaged. Click Start, Run and enter REGSVR32 ZIPFLDR.DLL This will re-register ZIP files with XP. Additionally, the compression option your using for Folders is the built in NTFS compression and is not the same as ZIPping files.

 

[Scooby]

When I right click on the folder, properties, advanced,
and click on 'compress folder',
the folder remains the same size, about 60 MB.
but the folder name is now blue in color rather than black.

That's because the PDF files are already compressed.

 

[Scooby]

When I right click on the folder, properties, advanced,
and click on 'compress folder',
the folder remains the same size, about 60 MB.
but the folder name is now blue in color rather than black.

That's because the PDF files are already compressed.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

No, its because applying NTFS compression to a folder does not compress already existing files.

 

[Robert J. Lafayette]

thank you all.

Robert


No, its because applying NTFS compression to a folder does not compress
already existing files.

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[Scooby]

:

That's because the PDF files are already compressed.

No, its because applying NTFS compression to a folder
does not compress already existing files.

You're right.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

And you're probably right, as well. PDF files don't ZIP very well, as I recall. But if they're in the folder when NTFS compression is turned on, they won't be compressed automatically.