Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Saving Space Using WinZip

Do you have a folder with lots of .txt ot other files that when "ZIPPED" really compress?

Try this to save valuable disk space:

  1. Zip all the files into one big "ZIPPED" file.
  2. Then delete the UNZIPPED files and keep the ZIP file in the original folder.
  3. Then when you want to see a particular file, open the main "ZIP" file but don't extract the files, just double click the file of interest right in the WinZip screen and it will open.
  4. If you modify the file and save your changes in the normal fashion, WinZip sees the change and asks if you want to update the file in the ZIP to which you of course say yes or Ok.

The net result is your files take up a lot less disk space and the files are easily accessable. (I have a group of .txt files that ZIPPED are just over one Meg but unzipped are over 7.5 Megs!)

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