Whats the best file compressor

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10-23-2004, 05:41 AM
imasoldier

Whats the best file compressor

Whats the best file compressor. Is there one better then zip, rar, ace? I need the best compressor cause im making a back up of all my stuff and right now I just need a program free or not that can do the highest compression.
10-23-2004, 05:52 AM
iMartin

Re: Whats the best file compressor

You could try UPX.
10-23-2004, 07:28 AM
zapjb

Re: Whats the best file compressor

7zip
10-23-2004, 11:22 AM
Aaron_T

Re: Whats the best file compressor

Winrar
10-23-2004, 11:23 AM
Bebi

Re: Whats the best file compressor

winrar
10-23-2004, 11:25 AM
Afronaut

Re: Whats the best file compressor

Winrar is pretty popular but as I know of, the 7zip is a bit tighter,
and 7zip is free, opensource.

:cool2:
10-23-2004, 11:49 AM
maskawaih

Re: Whats the best file compressor

Altho not opensource you still can use the program (winzip, winrar) even you have passed the evaluation time.
10-23-2004, 02:47 PM
imasoldier

Re: Whats the best file compressor

i used winrar and compressed this file all it did was go 7 mbs down and the program was 100 mbs so it sucks!!
10-23-2004, 05:15 PM
Bebi

Re: Whats the best file compressor

what do you want, 1Kb compression
10-23-2004, 06:07 PM
imasoldier

Re: Whats the best file compressor

Well ive seen some programs that come with games compressed so far like it was origionally 5 gbs compressed to like less then 1 gb and they didn't use the common compressors it would open up in like dos or something.
10-23-2004, 06:16 PM
[Spam]

Re: Whats the best file compressor

Quote:

Originally Posted by imasoldier

Well ive seen some programs that come with games compressed so far like it was origionally 5 gbs compressed to like less then 1 gb and they didn't use the common compressors it would open up in like dos or something.

That's UHARC. It's a bit hard to use though.

I like to use WinRar. Make sure the compression method is set to best, create solid archive is checked and the dictionary size is 4096KB.
10-23-2004, 06:20 PM
Peerzy

Re: Whats the best file compressor

What does create solid archiv do?
10-23-2004, 07:46 PM
h121589

Re: Whats the best file compressor

WinRAR
10-23-2004, 08:08 PM
{I}{K}{E}

Re: Whats the best file compressor

Quote:

Originally Posted by h121589

WinRAR

winrar doesnt have the best file compression, try 7Zip
10-23-2004, 10:34 PM
imasoldier

Re: Whats the best file compressor

i did use that 7zip it sucks
10-23-2004, 10:35 PM
imasoldier

Re: Whats the best file compressor

i did use that 7zip it sucks and i did set winrar to high and all the above it still doesnt compress good enough how do u use uharc?
10-23-2004, 10:35 PM
sebastian_insua

Re: Whats the best file compressor

Quote:

Originally Posted by imasoldier

i used winrar and compressed this file all it did was go 7 mbs down and the program was 100 mbs so it sucks!!

Well you haven't supposed to compress a file which has already been compressed....
10-24-2004, 12:29 AM
zapjb

Re: Whats the best file compressor

I use the 7zip compression extension in IZArc (freeware). It can compress in 11 different formats & decompress over 30 different extensions.:01:
10-24-2004, 02:14 AM
[Spam]

Re: Whats the best file compressor

Quote:

Originally Posted by peerzyboy

What does create solid archiv do?

Solid is an archive packed using a special compression method which sees all files as one continuous data stream. Particularly advantageous when packing a large number of small files.
10-24-2004, 04:12 AM
tesco

Re: Whats the best file compressor

I like to use WinACE as it decompresses a lot of different formats and compresses to a few of them as well.

But it's not as good as what you're looking for, it will only take off a couple percent of the file's size.