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In news:n43td15c7noosvomuu0kbndbld6g54fil9@4ax.com,
Vince <NoSPAM2THISHAM@yahoo.com> had this to say:
My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:59:12 -0400, "Galen" <galennews@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> In news:joisd1tg61vo8f1g3102q566nlivr6kbti@4ax.com,
>> Vince <NoSPAM2THISHAM@yahoo.com> had this to say:
>>
>> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>>
>>> I ran CLean Disk for the first time about 3 days ago on my WinXPpro
>>> SP2. Now I am seeing many filenames show up in blue lettering in
>>> WinExplorer. Did I make a mistake?
>>>
>>> Are there any special steps to be followed with respect to the
>>> filenames that are now blue?
>>
>> They are compressed. See here for more information:
>>
>>
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=534608
>>
>> Galen
>
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Now another question(s):
>
> Is there any need to uncompress these files?
>
> It appears to me that these compressed files do not need to be
> uncompressed to later run by clicking while using WindowsExplorer.
>
> I have several hundred jpeg files on my HDD that I want to burn onto a
> single CD-R disc volume, but I am not certain that they all will fit.
> I plan to compress these files prior to burning onto a data CDrom
> project. Once having done this, will IrfanView or another image
> editor/viewer work properly with the compressed files from the DVD
> reader ?
Hmm... I *think* that when you copy the compressed files to a disk that's
not formatted as NTFS you will lose your compression. You will need to
compress them with a third party utility for that to work. Do you need to
decompress them? Well, is everything working okay? So long as you didn't do
anything obscure or silly (like compressing system files or the like) you
should be all set. The compression is one of the added features of using the
NTFS format and as such if you move the content to another drive and the OS
that's using that drive is also NTFS you should be able to decompress them
as well. (Unless, of course, you've also encrypted them but that's another
matter.)
Galen
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