This will return you to the basic properties for the folder. You can uncompress just the folder and not its contents. Any new files placed in the folder will not be compressed automatically. Do that and click OK. Depending on the size of the folder and its contents, this operation can take some time. Once complete, the folder and everything within it will no longer be compressed. The only problem with this approach is that you need to operate on a compressed folder to uncompress it and its contents.
If a folder itself is not compressed, but contains many compressed files, you have to multi-select the individual files to perform the operation above. The command-line utility Compact is used to control Windows File Compression. In it are several files which are also compressed.
Worth noting is that the Compact command shows the effects of compression and the space saved for each file. Files which are already compressed like the.
Other files, like the. You may not know where all of your compressed files are. No problem: just run Compact on the entire hard disk. I am not a fan of the built-in Windows disk compression. The technology is sound, but its usefulness has declined over time. Hard disks are huge and relatively inexpensive these days. Particularly on those older machines, compression and decompression take additional CPU resources that could adversely impact your overall performance.
Many files are compressed already — in fact, many of the very files you might find taking up much of your hard disk space are. All of your music files mp3 and other formats , video files mp4, mov, wmv, and more , and even the latest formats used by Microsoft Office, such as. File system compression will not compress them by much more; in some cases, it can even make them take up a little more space.
These days, I advise against using Windows File compression unless you really have no other options. Copied the folder to Vista. DAT , then browse to the location of your. Your files will be recovered to OldFiles on your C drive. I guess you now found out the hard way the value of a current backup! I very much doubt you'll find out. Anyway, the method I gave you above should work. If that doesn't you're more then likely SOL. You must log in or sign up to reply here.
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