Thanks so much to everyone who posted advice. It turns out the answer is simple as was suggested, since I started compressing the disk with windows all I had to do was use windows with compress unchecked and the problem was solved.
On the disk, it consumes bytes, not only 30 bytes. Thus, a sector of bytes will now contain 20 files which were only bytes each. Like shortcuts, ini files and other useless small files. Windows could solve this problem if hard-drives were just setup to use isolated sector-sizes, which can be resized, as needed.
Stuff small files into small sector partitions and large files into large sector partitions. Poof, instant problems solved… You can now manage drives that are millions of terabytes large, without having to force all users to use only one large, inappropriate, sector size.
They do that because there are only so many bits that a directory can use, to seek to specific locations fast.
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Search Ask Leo! A long time ago when I used the Windows Disk Cleanup tool, it compressed old files. Is there a program to decompress all files on my PC that have been compressed?
Windows no longer offers to compress old files, though compression remains available. Decompressing files is done in Windows File Explorer.
Uncompressing files in the command line. Do this Subscribe to Confident Computing! I'll see you there! Podcast audio. The file is decompressed in order to be used, but it remains compressed on disk unless you manually specify it should no longer be compressed.
Can this be used on windows server , too? This is a far cry from a usable ZIP client. You cannot compress folders and there appears to be no way to add compressed files to an existing archive. Anyone else get "The compressed Zipped folder is invalid or corrupted" when you double-click the file compressed with this method? Compress isn't actually a ZIP client. You can unpack the files using expand. Chris Chris 1 1 gold badge 7 7 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges.
I'm a big fan of 7Zip, but the current issue is on a machine that I don't have install rights on, and there isn't a 3rd party zip widget installed. Thanks, though. Like I said, you don't have to install it. Copy the binary to a folder somewhere and run it from there. Well, you and I don't consider that installing.
The IT manager in question does, though, if you know what I mean. Ha, so run the 7zip binary from a remote network share : — Brent Pabst. Add a comment. Powershell does. Community Bot 1. John Rennie John Rennie 7, 1 1 gold badge 21 21 silver badges 34 34 bronze badges. I figured there must also be a powershell solution. This is not a command, but a series of scripts.
Type or paste this text into your command prompt. Being sure to keep the quotes around the file path. Press Enter to run the command. Usefully, it will also give you an idea of how much space you saved. In our case, we managed to bring a Not bad going. The method to uncompress files in command prompt is very similar — it just requires a slight change to the command.
If you know the file path, this method is definitely faster than jumping through UI boxes. If you found this tutorial useful, consider checking out our guides on using CompactOS compression and Windows 10 disk cleanup to free up some extra space. You can use command prompt to enable or disable NTFS file compression in the following way.
If you run Windows 10 Home, you will need to use the regedit method at the end. Setting the compression state of a directory does not necessarily change the compression state of files that are already in the directory. You can't use this command to read, write, or mount volumes compressed using DriveSpace or DoubleSpace. To set the compression state of the current directory, its subdirectories, and existing files, type:. To set the compression state of files and subdirectories within the current directory, without altering the compression state of the current directory itself, type:.
This example sets the compression state of all directories including the root directory on the volume and compresses every file on the volume. To compress all files with the. To force complete compression of the file zebra. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported.
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