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    Super Compressor

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by aan310, Jan 31, 2008.

  1. aan310

    aan310 Notebook Virtuoso

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    I remember hearing about a program that could take a few gig (like 1 gb) and turn it into around 200mb i was wondering if any one knew the name of it
     
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    Well, a files ability to be compressed is dependant on its file type(if im not mistaken) but as far as compression software goes winrar does fine for me. Or you could just convert the file to another file type which may compress it to a smaller version of it self (Like .wma to .mp3)
     
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    well, it is a program/ game we have been working on (more like a mod) and it is a huge file (a gig) and he doesnt have a dvd drive, so i need to compress it to fit on a cd (and none of us has flas drives, and id really jsut like to compress it) and i know the program exists
     
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    well...like i said...you could try winrar
     
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    i have, it compresses it from 1.26 gig to 1.24 gig
     
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    ok, well i found uharc, but it wont keep folders in there correct locations (it meshes all files in all subfolders into one big folder) and i need to o retain sub folders... any ideas?
     
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    there is ---KGB Archiver is the compression tool with an unbelievably high compression rate. Unfortunately, in spite of its powerful compression rate, it has high hardware requirements (I recommend processor with 1,5GHz clock and 256MB of RAM as an essential minimum).--- but i hear it takes a long long long time to uncompress.
     
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    yea, i jsut found that too, same deal with the folders
     
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    WinRAR has an option for compression, your reports of 1.26 to 1.24GB compressions are probably without any sort of compression. Look through the options when you are making an archive.
     
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    WinRAR...make 2x 700mb archives...obviously the second part won't be 700mb.
     
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    well, here is the problem..... one file is 894 MB and the rest are smaller scattered files so the problem is that one
     
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