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Compressing a compressed file?

Poulpoutine Posted messages 20 Status Membre -  
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Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to compress an already compressed file to make it even smaller? Is that possible?

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phil2k Posted messages 10841 Registration date   Status Contributeur Last intervention   2 339
 
Hello

It's possible to give it a try.
But it won't get bigger, so it's pointless...

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"To fix something that doesn't work or is too noisy, you just have to hit it with something that works better or makes more noise." The Shadoks
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Poulpoutine Posted messages 20 Status Membre
 
the goal is to lose size not to gain it
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phil2k Posted messages 10841 Registration date   Status Contributeur Last intervention   2 339 > Poulpoutine Posted messages 20 Status Membre
 
I understood perfectly.
Gaining space in terms of size would have been more sensible, I agree...
And even then, it’s not clear...
A bit of fatigue this morning.......
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Anonymous user
 
Hi!

It's best to divide it into several parts.
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Poulpoutine Posted messages 20 Status Membre
 
With what software? Because for large files like 40GB vacation photos/videos, doing it by hand is quite slow.
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Anonymous user > Poulpoutine Posted messages 20 Status Membre
 
WinRAR does it!

But why do you want to compress it?
Is it a file or a folder?
Start by putting it in a lighter format before compressing.
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Poulpoutine Posted messages 20 Status Membre
 
In fact, it's a really big file, and I have to take it somewhere and my hard drive just crashed, so I'm trying to split it into the smallest possible parts across several USB sticks.
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Anonymous user > Poulpoutine Posted messages 20 Status Membre
 
An external hard drive is ideal, and it's not expensive!
You plug the external hard drive into a USB port, you copy your files or the folder, and then you take the external hard drive to plug it into another computer.
I have three connected to my laptop.
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