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| View Poll Results: What kinds of files do you USUALLY compress? | |||
| Lossy compressed music files (MP3, WMA) |    | 14 | 40.00% |
| Lossless compressed music files (FLAC, etc.) |    | 4 | 11.43% |
| Uncompressed music files (WAV) |    | 8 | 22.86% |
| Lossy compressed graphics (JPG) |    | 16 | 45.71% |
| Lossless compressed graphics (PNG, GIF, PSD, TIF) |    | 16 | 45.71% |
| Uncompressed graphics (BMP) |    | 12 | 34.29% |
| Compressed HD/SD video clips (MPEG, DiVX, AVI, WMV) | | 4 | 11.43% |
| Work Documents (DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX) | | 26 | 74.29% |
| Presentations (PPT) | | 15 | 42.86% |
| Pure Text Files (TXT, CSV) | | 15 | 42.86% |
| Adobe Acrobat eBooks (PDF) | | 16 | 45.71% |
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30th Apr 2008, 04:09 AM
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| Pickin' Da Gitfiddle  Join Date: 19 Nov 2007 Location: Canada
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Reputation: 802   Rep Power: 13 |  I have selected the file types I usually compress which are mainly music files (surprise lol !!). Also Word text files and graphics for artwork I do in PS, lyrics, and text and pics for articles 
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30th Apr 2008, 10:30 AM
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| ARP Webmaster  Join Date: 13 Oct 2002 Location: http://atpeaz.placidthoughts.com/
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Reputation: 1673 Rep Power: 32 | Hmmm perhaps another idea for an article... Compare actually compressing files vs compressed disk.. LOL I don't really compress files nowadays for archiving purposes. The only reason I compress files is to keep them small to be sent over emails. so mostly documents of powerpoint slides. Some PDF here and there. As for my archival, I usually just archive it with the fastest settings JUST to keep a bunch of files into a single file. that's it  |
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30th Apr 2008, 12:28 PM
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| I'm a regular Join Date: 3 Mar 2005
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Reputation: 269 Rep Power: 7 | I compress anything that's not already compressed that I don't use often or plan to archive as I don't want to use more space than I have too, that and no DVD burner makes archiving more difficult. |
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30th Apr 2008, 02:03 PM
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| Da Boss Join Date: 10 Oct 2002 Location: In front of my ASUS F8V notebook!
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Reputation: 3574 Rep Power: 75 | Quote:
Both archival compression and compressed disk have different functions though. Files in compressed archives are not meant to be accessible directly but files in compressed disks are meant to be accessed directly. So compressed disks will definitely use poorer but faster compression algorithms.
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3rd May 2008, 10:55 PM
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Reputation: 3574 Rep Power: 75 | I need more votes! Please take the poll! Thanks!
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4th May 2008, 02:28 AM
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Reputation: 1106 Rep Power: 14 | I vote for all documents and images and pdf as well. Those are lot 
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4th May 2008, 02:42 AM
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5th May 2008, 09:09 AM
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| Da Boss Join Date: 10 Oct 2002 Location: In front of my ASUS F8V notebook!
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