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Offline redsniper

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on: January 12, 2005, 08:17:14 pm
I've got several gigabytes of data I want to compress and store. Whats' the best, free file compressor you know of? WinRAR is sissy stuff. UHARC can only handle chunks of <2GB and I got lost in command line hell with PAQAR. So, suggest away :D
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Offline BlackDove

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Reply #1 on: January 12, 2005, 08:21:52 pm
WinRAR. (yes I read your post)
 

Offline FireCrack

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Reply #2 on: January 12, 2005, 08:26:12 pm
WinRAR
actualy, mabye not.
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Offline redsniper

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Reply #3 on: January 12, 2005, 09:04:50 pm
bah! fine, I'll give your pansy WinRAR another chance. I tried it before and it didn't seem to compress very much but there's a very good chance I had some option set wrong or something.
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Offline Scuddie

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Reply #4 on: January 12, 2005, 09:07:46 pm
The odds are WinRAR will not work well, because most files on your disk are already compressed...  You cant compress an already compressed file, unless the original method was really inefficient.  With that said...

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Offline Thorn

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Reply #5 on: January 12, 2005, 09:08:02 pm
You have to set the compression method to "Best"
 

Offline pyro-manic

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Reply #6 on: January 12, 2005, 10:01:41 pm
My god... what on earth have you got that takes up "several gigs" tat needs compressing that badly? I'm assuming it's DVD images or something. In which case - burn 'em? It'll take you days to compress that lot. Your 'puter will catch fire from the strain... ;)
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Offline Taristin

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Reply #7 on: January 12, 2005, 10:09:55 pm
WinRAR is superior. And I recently got Styxx to add rar support for attached files, so all is good. :)
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Offline Stealth

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Reply #8 on: January 12, 2005, 11:13:10 pm
i'm assuming the "several gigs" are all porn you want to compress for a later date, right?  yeah...

;)

and good luck compressing them... you're looking at many, many hours... probably days
 

Offline BlackDove

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Reply #9 on: January 13, 2005, 02:09:39 am
Just buy god damn DVD's. I bought twenty recently, and managed to back up all my **** on 16 of them.
 

Offline Liberator

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Reply #10 on: January 13, 2005, 02:33:02 am
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Originally posted by Stealth
i'm assuming the "several gigs" are all porn you want to compress for a later date, right?  yeah...


Or he could be like me and has downloaded 18 episodes of Turn A Gundam and 13 episodes of Gundam SEED Destiny which are 250ish megabytes each.  I burned them and used up 10 blank CDs.
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Offline Flaser

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Reply #11 on: January 13, 2005, 07:23:58 pm
The problem with winrar + huge archieves is that unless you do a backup browsing in the file will be a lot slower than a zip.
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Offline an0n

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Reply #12 on: January 13, 2005, 07:30:59 pm
DVD's are the way to go.
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Offline pyro-manic

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Reply #13 on: January 13, 2005, 07:37:06 pm
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Originally posted by Raa
WinRAR is superior. And I recently got Styxx to add rar support for attached files, so all is good. :)


That's all well and good, except only a few people can actually attach files to posts.... :doubt:
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Offline Taristin

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Reply #14 on: January 13, 2005, 07:40:19 pm
Not my problem. :p
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Offline an0n

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Reply #15 on: January 13, 2005, 07:47:07 pm
Get one of them new-fangled Blu-Ray drives.

50Gb per disc, apparently.
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Offline Fractux

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Reply #16 on: January 13, 2005, 07:52:09 pm
7-zip is a very good compressor as well. I use it all the time. nd, it's totally free :)

http://www.7-zip.org/

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Offline redsniper

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Reply #17 on: January 13, 2005, 07:52:57 pm
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Originally posted by Liberator
Or he could be like me and has downloaded 18 episodes of Turn A Gundam and 13 episodes of Gundam SEED Destiny which are 250ish megabytes each.  I burned them and used up 10 blank CDs.


Close. X-files episodes actually. WinRAR couldn't compress them very much (3GB to 2.8GB) and I don't have a DVD burner. It's okay though, I'll probably never watch them again, at least not soon. If there's no easy way to super extremely compress them I'll just delete them. No big deal. You can now hijack/derail the thread. :)
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Offline Taristin

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Reply #18 on: January 13, 2005, 07:55:15 pm
...didn't you used to have an SCP badge? :wtf:
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Offline redsniper

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Reply #19 on: January 13, 2005, 08:16:15 pm
you surely aren't referring to me? I don't know jack about coding.
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