Compression

[Philip K.]

After I compress a file or folder, Windows Explorer still shows the original
file sizes. How can I determine the compressed size or compression ratio?

 

[David H. Lipman]

Use a compression tool such as WinZIP which is much more capable than the compression
capabilities built into WinXP.

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Dave




| After I compress a file or folder, Windows Explorer still shows the original
| file sizes. How can I determine the compressed size or compression ratio?
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[Vanguard]

After I compress a file or folder, Windows Explorer still shows the
original file sizes. How can I determine the compressed size or
compression ratio?

What do you see for size when you right-click on the *folder* to look at
its properties?

 

[Alex Nichol]

After I compress a file or folder, Windows Explorer still shows the original
file sizes. How can I determine the compressed size or compression ratio?

If you r-click and Properties it will show you Size (the size of
uncompressed data) and Size on disk - the amount of disk space being
used. The ratio indicates degree of compression, apart from a small
error from slack space in the last cluster used (up to 4K - assume 2K as
average)