Is there some way I can persuade the operating system to decompress all files

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I let Disk Cleanup compress many files that I now wish were not compressed.

Is there some way I can persuade the operating system to decompress them?


thanks
 
Academia said:
I let Disk Cleanup compress many files that I now wish were not compressed.

Is there some way I can persuade the operating system to decompress them?


thanks
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Select the files, right click & select Properties, click on Advanced button
and deselect 'Compress contents to save disk space'.
Regards Mike.
 
They can be "uncompressed" en masse from the Command Prompt. Start a
command session and navigate to the root of the drive and use the
Compact command, typically:

cd\
compact /u /i /a /s:\

That will uncompress all the files on the drive. For help on the
command use the /? switch, example:

compact /?

You can issue the command at the root of any folder, it will only
decompress the files in that folder and its subfolders. You can also
right click on the drive or any folder and in Properties>Advanced you
can uncheck the "Compress contents..."

John
 
thanks a lot

John John said:
They can be "uncompressed" en masse from the Command Prompt. Start a
command session and navigate to the root of the drive and use the
Compact command, typically:

cd\
compact /u /i /a /s:\

That will uncompress all the files on the drive. For help on the
command use the /? switch, example:

compact /?

You can issue the command at the root of any folder, it will only
decompress the files in that folder and its subfolders. You can also
right click on the drive or any folder and in Properties>Advanced you can
uncheck the "Compress contents..."

John
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thanks a lot

Mike Cawood said:
Select the files, right click & select Properties, click on Advanced
button and deselect 'Compress contents to save disk space'.
Regards Mike.
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