Compress 1.77GB file to fit on a 512MB USB Thumb Drive

[happymac.support]

Hi,

Is there any way to compress a 1.77GB file to fit on a USB Thumb
Drive? Ive already tried using WinRAR on the "Best" compression mode
and it only reduced the size by 200MB (New size was 1.75GB).

Any one know how to do it?

Thanx

 

[Malke]

Hi,

Is there any way to compress a 1.77GB file to fit on a USB Thumb
Drive? Ive already tried using WinRAR on the "Best" compression mode
and it only reduced the size by 200MB (New size was 1.75GB).

Any one know how to do it?

No. Buy a bigger usb thumb drive or burn the data to DVD.


Malke

 

[happymac.support]

No. Buy a bigger usb thumb drive or burn the data to DVD.

Malke

I already have the data on DVD. Its just that the computer that im
trying to use it on is cirrupt and cant read optical media. Is there
any other way without getting a larger capacity thumb drive?

 

[dobey]

I already have the data on DVD. Its just that the computer that im
trying to use it on is cirrupt and cant read optical media. Is there
any other way without getting a larger capacity thumb drive?

Either an external hard drive that connects via USB, or you could use WinRar
to create a split archive in 500 MB chunks, then transfer each piece using
the thumbdrive you have, or a utility like HJSplit will cut up a file into
parts then re-assemble it on the other machine.

Alternately you could just take an optical drive and install it on the other
machine, even if temporarily. This would only take a few minutes.

 

[happymac.support]

Either an external hard drive that connects via USB, or you could use WinRar
to create a split archive in 500 MB chunks, then transfer each piece using
the thumbdrive you have, or a utility like HJSplit will cut up a file into
parts then re-assemble it on the other machine.

Alternately you could just take an optical drive and install it on the other
machine, even if temporarily. This would only take a few minutes.

It seems that the 7-zip format has a really good compression rate. I
saw 6.34GB of files packed into a single 1.85GB archive. Do the math
and thats a 1 : 3.43 compression ratio. If that same ratio applied, I
would be able to compress a 1.77GB file into a 516MB file. Still too
small enough to fit on the thumb drive anyway. I don't need to
compress the files anymore though, the destination computer has been
fixed so I'll burn it to DVD instead.

Thanx for all the help

Topic closed

 

[Gordon]

It seems that the 7-zip format has a really good compression rate. I
saw 6.34GB of files packed into a single 1.85GB archive. Do the math
and thats a 1 : 3.43 compression ratio. If that same ratio applied, I
would be able to compress a 1.77GB file into a 516MB file. Still too
small enough to fit on the thumb drive anyway. I don't need to
compress the files anymore though, the destination computer has been
fixed so I'll burn it to DVD instead.

Thanx for all the help

The actual compression achieved also depends on the type of files being
compressed - for example - if the majority of the files are jpeg, then that
format is pretty much compressed all ready, and the compression achieved
will not be very much, if anything.

 

[Gordon]

It seems that the 7-zip format has a really good compression rate. I
saw 6.34GB of files packed into a single 1.85GB archive. Do the math
and thats a 1 : 3.43 compression ratio. If that same ratio applied, I
would be able to compress a 1.77GB file into a 516MB file. Still too
small enough to fit on the thumb drive anyway. I don't need to
compress the files anymore though, the destination computer has been
fixed so I'll burn it to DVD instead.

Thanx for all the help

The actual compression achieved also depends on the type of files being
compressed - for example - if the majority of the files are jpeg, then that
format is pretty much compressed all ready, and the compression achieved
will not be very much, if anything.