Compressed files

[Stumpy]

After shuffling some music files on my harddrive I noticed that some files
were in a blue font all the way across each column. Others remained black
as usual. Checking properties, I found that the blue ones were compressed.
I must have done this previously when trying to scrounge up more disk space.

Is it OK to leave folders with partial contents compressed, others not? Is
the listed file size the original size?

 

[yaro137]

After shuffling some music files on my harddrive I noticed that some files
were in a blue font all the way across each column.  Others remained black
as usual.  Checking properties, I found that the blue ones were compressed.
I must have done this previously when trying to scrounge up more disk space.

Is it OK to leave folders with partial contents compressed, others not?  Is
the listed file size the original size?

MP3 and such are already compressed so further attempts of compression
wont give you more disk space.
yaro

 

[LVTravel]

It is perfectly OK to leave files compressed on the hard drive. If the file
is ever used, the OS will uncompress it on the fly and the performance hit
while uncompressing is really very small.

To answer the second question I did a quick test on a folder that contained
117 MB (123,268,898 bytes) of files. Each individual file size after
compressing displays the original file size in the details view of Windows
Explorer. In Properties for the folder (and for each individual file if run
on a file) it shows the actual size and then under it shows the Size on disk
as 115 MB and 120,945,664 bytes.

 

[Twayne]

After shuffling some music files on my harddrive I noticed that some

files were in a blue font all the way across each column. Others
remained black as usual. Checking properties, I found that the blue
ones were compressed. I must have done this previously when trying to
scrounge up more disk space.
Is it OK to leave folders with partial contents compressed, others
not? Is the listed file size the original size?

You'll have no problems. Check the Properties tab; it will contain info
on the compression.

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[Stumpy]

It is perfectly OK to leave files compressed on the hard drive. If the

file is ever used, the OS will uncompress it on the fly and the
performance hit while uncompressing is really very small.

To answer the second question I did a quick test on a folder that
contained 117 MB (123,268,898 bytes) of files. Each individual file size
after compressing displays the original file size in the details view of
Windows Explorer. In Properties for the folder (and for each individual
file if run on a file) it shows the actual size and then under it shows
the Size on disk as 115 MB and 120,945,664 bytes.

Thanks. I wouldn't know how to uncompress interspersed files anyway.