Compree old files

But that was back then, what about today? When you copy or move a compressed NTFS file to a different folder, NTFS decompresses the file, copies or moves the file to the new location, and then recompresses the file.

If the file is copied to a FAT32 drive then the file is not being compressed again after being copied. Note: When you zip or unzip files, the original files are not deleted. If you want to delete the original files, you will have to do so manually. For zipping and unzipping most files, the built-in Windows utility will suffice; however, if you encounter a compressed format not supported by the built-in Windows tools, you can try one of the following programs:. Note: These third-party tools are not available on IUware and may require purchase, although most offer free trials.

Except, if you want to fine-tune it, very small files and files that are compressed anyway, such as ZIP, MP3 etc. Luis Luis 11 1 1 bronze badge. Same for me as well. We run the command quite often here on our server systems and my team has a lot of them. We often saw that a server running since years get arround 20 GB free space from a 50 GB disk when the comand is run.

Sure it might take CPU to de-compress the file, but if it keeps us from enlarging the diskspace in the next years who care about that less CPU. This is a old tech option that does very little in today's computers. Pops 8, 28 28 gold badges 72 72 silver badges 94 94 bronze badges. T-Boy T-Boy 1. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.

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