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no big differences winrar and winzip i use winrar

there are some more powerfull compression methods but they are not usable for everyday work as they are way too slow.

there is no way 3gb of data can be compressed to 250k. there were some files floating around packed like this with special compressors but they were all damaged altho they would show as being uncompressed properly.

Ime 7zip is the best.

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Originally Posted by optimus_prime

there is no way 3gb of data can be compressed to 250k. there were some files floating around packed like this with special compressors but they were all damaged altho they would show as being uncompressed properly.

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If you guys dont believe it, check this out.
http://www.4shared.com/file/30192089.../NEO_MINI.html
This iso is not installable, you have to mount it to play. The original setup is different and is not compressed. But I dont have the setup files.

One thing i have noticed i used to be able to rar photos with winrar and compress them to an 8th of the original size the more recent versions don't have this abbility Does anyone know why? or which version i should go back to be able to do this again ?

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Originally Posted by HMthePM

If you guys dont believe it, check this out.
http://www.4shared.com/file/30192089.../NEO_MINI.html
This iso is not installable, you have to mount it to play. The original setup is different and is not compressed. But I dont have the setup files.

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exactly what i was talking about. it's nothing but a big corrupted image file. you can't play that :)

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Originally Posted by sleepyy

One thing i have noticed i used to be able to rar photos with winrar and compress them to an 8th of the original size the more recent versions don't have this abbility Does anyone know why? or which version i should go back to be able to do this again ?

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winrar had multimedia option in older versions, now it should auto recognize file types. you can't compress compressed images (jpg) that much tho, i bet you compressed bmp or raw straight from your camera.

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Originally Posted by optimus_prime

exactly what i was talking about. it's nothing but a big corrupted image file. you can't play that :)

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Originally Posted by sleepyy

One thing i have noticed i used to be able to rar photos with winrar and compress them to an 8th of the original size the more recent versions don't have this abbility Does anyone know why? or which version i should go back to be able to do this again ?

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winrar had multimedia option in older versions, now it should auto recognize file types. you can't compress compressed images (jpg) that much tho, i bet you compressed bmp or raw straight from your camera.

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Yes you were right after i tryed it :frusty: i have been wondering why for a while now i never thought to ask untill i saw this thread i managed to compress the file by 2 over 3 which is quite good jpeg however done nothing as it is allready compressed as i just read

I like winrar and i use it.

I use winrar. 7zip WILL give better compression, but it takes much longer to compress and extract than rar archives. imo it's not worth it.

Use winrar and 7zip.