How to undo or uncompress "compress old files" in windows

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chaski

I thought I would add this insight or trick that I learned today....
It seemed to work for undoing the compressing that I did a couple of
days ago.

I'm going to give the general idea, then you can apply to an entire
drive or to entire directories of the drive.

Go to the root level of where you want to start...
1.Create a new text document.
2.Right click on the new text document and select properties
3. Click the advanced tab.
4. Check "Compresss contents to save disk space" (Seems backwards, but
I am getting somewhere.)
5. Click okay, okay again.

The trick...(maybe not so much a trick for you advanced users; this
process will do subfolders)

1. Select all files & folders (including our dummy text file we created
earlier) that you want to take the C attribute off of
2. Right click and properties
3. Advanced button
4. uncheck "Compress contest to save disk space" (don't do anything
else, at this time.)
5. click okay, okay again, it will ask to do subfolders, select OK, and
it will clean out the compress, and actually uncompress the files.

This process can take awhile, that is why I suggest start small, and do
3-5 of these at a time instead of all at once! I had no problems
doubling up the processes.
 

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