Compress Your Temp Folder

[miner]

if you are tired of partial emule downloads taking up a full 700 MB space on your HDD even when the file is 3% just compress the contents of your temp folder. you have to have XP and an NTSF file structure to do this. on my 60 GB HDD i have 27 GB in my compressed temp folder. this 27 GB would normally take up 110 GB.

[Arathorn]

What the hell are you downloading all the time then?

[4th gen]

yeah, this is a good trick for those who didn't previously know

it may take some time to compress a large temp folder on a slow computer though, so be patient

and you'll have to exit emule to compress the temp files, of course

[sparsely]

I really don't understand the practice, myself.
It's gonna be that size when it's done...so what's the difference?

[4th gen]

Originally posted by Sparsely@11 January 2004 - 00:07
I really don't understand the practice, myself.
It's gonna be that size when it's done...so what's the difference?

well, like miner says, he/she can have 110GB worth of temp files on a 60GB drive

then he/she can just back up the finished downloads whilst the others download

[Jarmann]

On a different forum, some guy listed the compression thingy as a method of getting faster downloads. I tried to ask him what the mechanics behind this was, as I could see no connection between those two. I didn't really get an answer, just that "Hey, it works for me"...
Can any one confirm this claim?

[DVD PIRATE III]

Well I compressed mt temp folder..and it didnt gain me much space back..
it doesnt speed up my downloads either,
but i have seen this tip mentioned at the emule forum

[Keikan]

how do you compress a folder?

[guit_steel]

First, u need to be using XP and u need to have chosen the NTSF structure when formatting ur HD.

If so, right click on the folder u've designated as the temp folder for eMule and select Properties. In the Properties box click on Advanced. Check the 'compress contents to save disc space" box and click OK. Click Apply in the Properties box and ur puter will take it from there.

Depending on the size of ur temp folder and what other apps ur running, the compression may take some time. U can tell its complete when all the files in the folder r lettered blue rather than black.

[4th gen]

Originally posted by Jarmann@15 January 2004 - 03:57
On a different forum, some guy listed the compression thingy as a method of getting faster downloads. I tried to ask him what the mechanics behind this was, as I could see no connection between those two. I didn't really get an answer, just that "Hey, it works for me"...
Can any one confirm this claim?

I don't see how this person could see a link between compressing temp files and increasing download speed. What he probably meant was that with some downloads, there is a compression during the transfer (i.e. emule will compress bitmap files) so this will speed up the download.