We all know that we need to compress a large file if we want to transfer or send it to someone. But have you ever thought about what happens to a file when it is compressed? How does the size of a ...

Q: Can you explain the differences between compression, file deduplication and data deduplication? A: All of these products fit into an overall market and technical concept, which is capacity ...

Thanks to ever-growing hard-drive capacities and ever-faster network connections, compressing files isn’t quite the vital and frequent task it used to be. Still, it’s useful in certain situations; for ...

Video files are typically large and consume a significant amount of disk space. More importantly, if the video file is raw and has been taken unprocessed from a camera then it might have an even ...

If you have any doubt about the many commands and options available on Linux systems for file compression, you might want to take a look at the output of the apropos compress command. Chances are ...

WinRAR has become a top software in the field of file compression and archiving, giving users dependable and practical solutions to their problems. Its Solid Archive is one of its many noteworthy ...

Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an IT veteran turned stay-at-home-dad of two girls. He focuses on Android devices and applications while maintaining a review blog ...

The compression and decompression of files is one the most useful inventions in the history of computing, but the lack of portable and open tools poses a major obstacle to making the process as useful ...

Click to viewWhether you've been sent a simple ZIP archive, you need to create and share your own compressed files, or you're staring down the barrel of some obscure archive format you've never seen ...

I ran Disk Cleanup on my laptop this evening and decided to go ahead and "compress old files" as part of the process. I've never done that before but I figured what the hell since I've only got about ...