XP folder compression - Is it safe???

It is unlikely to yield much space at all as your audio and video files will already compressed. At least I assume you're not storing your audio as wav files ?!

The folder compression is based on standard zip format so you can try zipping up a few files to see if you get much reduction.

Safety wise I've never tried using it but it was released with windows so it should be fine :)
 
Just given the old folder compression a try.

As expected text files compress quite well.

5079 text files taking up 58.7MB compressed to 37.9MB

On the other hand

569 mp3s taking up 2.36GB compressed to 2.35GB
 
just buy a new hard disk you tightwad. or delete some of that pr0n... :eek: :D

in all seriousness, a new hard disk really is the only way forward. disk space is hardly expensive nowadays. i would imagine your pc will be slower too as it will have to compress/uncompress on the fly whenever you want to access your files... :p

edit: see here.....

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307987

NTFS Compression
NTFS compression is available on volumes that use the NTFS file system, and NTFS compression has the following features and limitations:
• You can use NTFS compression to compress individual files and folders, as well as an entire NTFS volume.
• You can compress a folder without compressing its contents.
• You can work with NTFS-compressed files without decompressing them, because they are decompressed and recompressed without user intervention.
• You can display NTFS-compressed file and folder names in a different color to make them easier to identify.
• You may notice a decrease in performance when you work with NTFS-compressed files. When you open a compressed file, Windows automatically decompresses it for you, and when you close the file, Windows compresses it again. This process may decrease your computer performance.
• NTFS-compressed files and folders only remain compressed while they are stored on an NTFS Volume.
• You cannot encrypt an NTFS-compressed file.
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