Disc Compression Question

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  1. Amaury Chaser

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    Does anyone know how exactly this works?

    As everyone knows, when choosing "Properties" on Local (C:), one can have the option to do a disc clean-up.

    However, there are also two check-boxes

    Unchecked: Compress drive to save disc space
    Checked: Allow Indexing Service to index this disc for fast file searching

    In other words, the disc can be compressed to save space, but does it mess anything up?

    Thanks in advance.
     
    Amaury, Aug 12, 2011
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  2. Llave Superless Moderator

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    I don't think it messes things up, i think it's kinda like a compressed file that is "zipped up" and all you do is click on it and it releases an uncompressed version of the file. I haven't done that on a disc, but that's my assumption...
     
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  3. Misty gimme kiss

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    I believe Llave is right, it will simply compress everything on your C: drive to a .ZIP file. I would not recommend that, though. It'd be a pain to access your files and would mess up things with the Operating System's files. If you have folders that you want to keep on archive but don't access often, ZIP those.
     
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    Thanks for the replies, guys! I guess I'll just stay as is.

    I reached capacity earlier because of all my old saved walkthrough videos, so I deleted them, haha!

    I guess you can lock this now, Misty. :3
     
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  5. Llave Superless Moderator

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    Well before she does, you can always get a flash drive at Walmart or somewhere, if you're concerned for space. .ZIP doesn't save a whole lot of memory, but it encodes it.

    You can get Flash drives for 4GB around 5-10 dollars, pretty good deal!
     
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  6. Misty gimme kiss

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    External hard drives are also pretty cheap. =] But,
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    Misty, Aug 13, 2011
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