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Old June 22nd 03, 10:23 PM
John McGaw
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Default Undo "compress old files" in Disk Cleanup utility?

"Hackworth" wrote in message
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I guess this is sort of on topic because it involves a new hard disk for a
home-built computer.

I'm using Windows XP Home SP1. I recently used the Disk Cleanup utility

in
System Tools, and in addition to most of the other checkboxes that are
selected by default, I went ahead and checked the "Compress old files"
option just to see what it would do. (That's the way I am.) I thought

that
it *deleted* "compressed old files" but I see now that it actually
*compresses* old files! sigh

Anyhow, when I saw what it was doing, I stopped the process. It was taking
too long and I wasn't sure what effect having a bunch of compressed files

on
my hard disk would have on performance (because presumably Windows would
have to decompress them every time some program needed to access them).

Everything was working fine until I purchased a new hard disk and tried to
use the latest version of PowerQuest's DriveCopy. It would stop with "too
many files errors." After a few minutes of tinkering, I discovered that I
could turn off file checking and let DriveCopy do its thing, disregarding
everything it thinks is a "file error."

The story has a happy ending and everything works fine now--I love the

quiet
new WD drive with its 8 MB cache!--but I'd like to undo the compressed

file
thing to prevent future problems. Does anyone know how I would go about
doing that?

Have you tried right-clicking on the file properties advanced uncheck
compressed ok apply? This works for files and folders that you have
compressed yourself and I suspect that it will work for your purpose
(programmers don't voluntarily waste their work by doing the same job twice
despite total idiot managers).
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