Compressed Files

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I am in need of drive space, so I thought I would compress as many files I
could.
After compression, the directory trees shows not only the compressed size,
but ALSO the same files and the space they use that I had just compressed.
This ends up using MORE diskspace.
Can I delete the original files that I had compressed ??

Thanks for any help
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[M.I.5¾]

I am in need of drive space, so I thought I would compress as many files I
could.
After compression, the directory trees shows not only the compressed size,
but ALSO the same files and the space they use that I had just compressed.
This ends up using MORE diskspace.
Can I delete the original files that I had compressed ??

If you copied the original files into a compressed volume, then yes. But
make sure that they are duplicates first.

 

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M.I.5¾

Thanks for replying to my post.
How will I be able to be sure ... would that be the size of the compressed
or the file folder ??