Zip/Compress a folder/file

Hi
recently i've try to Zip/Compress a folder...but funny...the folder is 15GB after compress...it still 15GB...haaa...
Any problem?need helps..

mactreouser wrote:
But why i need the compress or Zip...that's because i need to backup my projects and files into DVDR.If,i do a compression on Video such as H.264 Quality to Low and Frame Rate 15...it'll be small the file...but it can't be use for Hi Quality project anymore...do you get what i wish?haaa...
The problem is H.264 goes way beyond Zip in compression. Since you already applied H.264, there isn't anything else that Zip can do.
If you want to preserve the quality, the only solution is to have big enough disks.
I don't know whether my concept is on the track or not?!haaa...But i think it work..cause,sometimes we need to send file throught internet and we need to Zip it for email or transfering purpose..am i right?
Probably not. When you send a document like a Word file, the text is not already compressed. There are still many patterns that can be condensed and spaces that can be closed up. When you zip that document, it can take advantage of all those opportunities for compression, and the file size goes down.
But again, your H.264 files are already much smaller than uncompressed video. It's already crammed together as far as it will go unless you want to lose more quality. Therefore Zip cannot do anything more, and the file size stays the same.

Similar Messages

Adobe Acrobat X Pro ZIP Compression Creates Larger Files

Hello,
I made a flyer in InDesign CS 6 which contains a fairly complicated vector image made with Illustrator. When I export to PDF, InDesign creates a file of the size of 26 MB (ish). I then run preflight in Acrobat which finds that the vector image isn't compressed.
Note that my PDF settings in InDesign are set to bicubic subsampling for colour images that are above 450 px and JPG compression.
When I tell Acrobat to apply fixes, it tries to apply ZIP compression but the file size is then 38 MB. Could anyone shed light on this for me please? There is obviously something basic about vector images and compression that I am missing.
It also finds elements that are completely off the board, although I didn't put anything there with InDesign.

Test Screen Name: After seeing your response I run a little test. I made a PDF straight from Illustrator just using that image then preflighted it and I got the same error.
I then opened that same PDF in Illustrator, a lot of that artwork was turned into images. I think it's the transparency flattener as I am converting to PDF/X-1A with compatibility for Acrobat 4 (which I should have probably mentioned in the first post but I didn't make the connection between the two). As far as I understand the transparency flattener converts an image into a mix of paths and rasters (according to Adobe's own help files.)
Preset used for preflight is sheetfed offset CMYK btw.

Trying to zip / compress a file in Windows Server 2008 & SQL Server 2008 R2 server

Hi,
We are trying to zip / compress a xml file that has been created by retrieving data from SQL Server 2008 R2 database running on Windows Server 2008.
To compress this file, we cannot use any external softwares like 7-zip or WinZip.
So, we would like to know if there is any windows default compression tool that works on command line to compress the file?
As this is a live server we cannot apply any other softwares.
Please suggest any ways to do it in Windows Server 2008 machine.
Thanks & Regards
Kalyan

Hello Kaylan,
and for uncompress what can I use
This is a way to do it in SSIS
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jorg_klein/archive/2009/08/27/ssis-unpack-a-zip-file-with-the-script-task.aspx
Please Mark This As Answer if it helps to solve the issue Visakh ---------------------------- http://visakhm.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/VmBlogs

I am trying to send minutes of a meeting to pc users by clicking on export and choosing the word option. Recipients are unable to open them saying they came as a ZIP compressed folder. No idea what that is or how to correct the problem. Help!

I am trying to send minutes of a meeting created in Pages to pc users by clicking on export then word. Recipients are telling me they cannot open the minutes which have come as a ZIP compressed folder. I have no idea what this is or how to fix the problem. Help?!

A pc user can open a .zip file by double clicking it.
If that does not work, you can convert the document to a .pdf by doing the following.
With the document active, type commannd + P (the print command).
In the next screen, on the bottom left, click on PDF, and in the drop down select Save as pdf...
You will be asked where the .pdf should be saved - the desktop is the easiest.
Now when you want to send the minutes, you have them as a .pdf file. Anyone with Adobe Acrobat Reder can open this.

How do you purge/compress/shrink the iPhoto11 folder/file size?

How do you purge/compress/shrink the iPhoto11 folder/file size?
I have been using iPhoto since iLife'05 and have always upgraded with each iteration of iLife. Without exception, I had just recently upgraded to iPhoto'11 when iLife'11 came out. Because I have used iPhoto to store all my photos and videos taken over the last 5 years or so, my iPhoto folder/file has become bigger and bigger over time and so I moved it to an external hard-drive. My main iPhoto'11 folder/file has 14,367 photos, 995 videos and is indicated to be 83 GB by iPhoto'11. But "Get Info" in Finder reports a whopping 130 GB.
I started to think that this is getting a little crazy and I had wanted to better manage my photo collection, so I decided to "divide and conquer" this gigantic iPhoto'11 folder/file into several smaller, more manageable sized ones. So I made a duplicate copy of this gigantic iPhoto'11 folder/file onto another external hard-drive, fire-up iPhoto'11 again to delete away almost 80% of the photos and 90% of the videos. Now, my "slimmed-down" iPhoto folder/file has 3,000 photos, 75 videos and is indicated to be 6.8 GB by iPhoto'11. But despite the new "slimmed-down" status, the "Get Info" in Finder reports a still very huge 44 GB. Where did all those bulk come from? I have emptied both the iPhoto'11 Trash Can and Mac OS X Trash Can and these steps did not seemed to change anything at all.
Therefore, I wanted to see what the "Get Info" in Finder will report if I were to delete 99.99% of the photos and video to leave just one (1) photo in iPhoto'11? Guess what is the result? My "One Photo experimental" iPhoto folder/file has 1 photo, 0 videos and is indicated to be 2 MB by iPhoto'11 yet the "Get Info" in Finder reports a mysterious 36.3 GB. There must be something hiding inside!
Help! What can I do?

I went on to try trashing away some of the folders and files inside and found that I could actually do it quite neatly if I go by the year which the photos are taken. After a lot of trial and error working on duplicate copy of my iPhoto '11 library, I am able to do away with all the clutter within the library and still open it normally.
Now my 44GB obese iPhoto'11 library has been slimmed down to just a little over 7 GB (5 GB as reported by iPhoto'11) and I am just comfortable dealing with 2 GB of "don't-know-what-info" of clutter within the library.
Remember my "One Photo Experimental" iPhoto'11 library that was 36.3 GB? I managed to bring it down to the realistic 22 MB size. This size is still double that of a brand new iPhoto'11 library I created to import 1 photo. However, it sure beat having 36.3 GB of clutter.
So, now what I am gonna do is to "divide and conquer" the duplicate copies of my iPhoto'11 library into smaller sized ones according to their year. But I think I'll still keep the original bloated, gigantic 130 GB intact and continue to feed it with photos and videos until maybe it becomes 1 TB! Yikes!
Anyway, million thanks for your tip and I really appreciate it! Have a Happy holidays!

I need to know how to "compress" the Folder Tree. The File folders are moving to the right and out of sight in Lightroom 5.

I need to know how to "compress" the Folder Tree. The File folders are moving to the right and out of sight in Lightroom 5.

A couple of suggestions that may help:
- Make sure you've made the left-hand column as wide as possible by grabbing the divider between the column and the Library grid view.
- You can hide a parent folder from the display by right-clicking it and selecting Hide This Parent. This will shift all the child folders to the left.

LR 2.5 won't export TIFF files with LZW or ZIP compression??

I've just updated to LR2.5 and CR5.5, I'm using Vista Ultimate x64 on an AMD x2 64 bit pc.
LR worked fine until 2.4 came along and hijacked all my auto play settings. Adobe finally releases 2.5 and now I find if I export TIFF files from a Nikon D700 NEF all I get is a black box the same size as the image??? If I turn LZW or ZIP compression off and export uncompressed the export works again. JPEG also exports ok.
Anyone else getting this? Have you found out what's causing it?
James.

Thanks for the feedback Jao,
I just tried across the whole range of TIFF options and the only files that don't give me a black file are 8bit and 16 bit with no compression. LZW and ZIP both stuff up
Might try a complete uninstall and reinstall to see if that fixes things. These sorts of things only happen when you are in a rush to get lots of work done!
Regards
James

KeyNote files corrupted by Zip-compressing!

I've heard of people getting KeyNote files corrupted so that they are unopenable. I'd never experienced it until I Zip-compressed the file in the finder. Upon uncompressing, the file is corrupt and will NOT open. Yikes!! (Fortunately, I have the original still).
This is serious if it is general. Can anyone else tell me if they see this (and a possible solution to fix a file corrupted in this way).
Info: KeyNote '08 (4.0.3), intel mac. System 10.5.2

I have had that problem, and it happens when the source Keynote file is on an external (firewire) drive. If I copy the file to the root/main drive THEN zip it, it works fine.
....and this happens on multiple Macs and multiple external drives.

How do I ZIP compress existing TIFF tiles in Lightroom 3?

I have imported about 1000 .tif files into Lightroom and done some cropping and basic editing to them. They are 8bit uncompressed tiff files in Adobe1998 color space. I am trying to find a way to compress the original tiff files with ZIP compression in Lightroom. I don't want to export them because I want to save the original files and their edit history. I don't want to loose the original files before I cropped or color corrected them. I just want to reduce file sizes. Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks so much for your help!

You can´t compress original files into zipped files within Lightroom. If you are not actively using these images in LR, you may wish to zip them all up outside LR and then delete the originals. LR will then show them as missing, but will keep the metadata, including editing history, in the catalog. You could write the metadata to xmp files before you zip up your originals, and include these xmp files with the originals in the zipped folder, if you want to play it really safe. It is not necessary to keep the originals around as such. LR keeps track of what they were and what had been done to them internally, even if they are missing. When you need to work with these files again in LR, you can unzip them and show LR where they are.

Disk Imaging, DMG, Zip, COmpressing

Hi,
I just downloaded a cool free software called FreeDMG which creates disk images. The problem is I'm not quite sure what it's used for! I know it creates .dmg files out of folders, i.e. creates a disk image, but what could I use this for? I know most program developers must use it to create the .dmg versions of their programs, but for a regular user....
Is it a compression tool? Can I use it to reduce the size of some of my file folders for back up purposes? If not, what for?
By the way are there other OS X solutions for compressing large file folders and reduce space occupied by a back up solution?
thanks
J

Wade,
I'm a pretty comfortable osx user and I'm targetting you with this question as you seem to have a lot of posts and that nifty developer icon. I'm well aware of how 10.4 pulled out from having stuffit in their systems and allowed for creation of native zip archives via Create Archive in the finder itself. I'm glad to have found out in my reading that zip natively now supports all resource forks as a designer using old school fonts.
Here are some of my concerns for my workflow in prepping for archving work and looking towards a compatible future:
-Is there a way to tweak default zip compressions settings to getting smaller archives?
-What about RAR, I'm in the midst of trying to figure out if RAR has any support for resources forks often found in font files. An additional benefit that I see in RAR is the parity factor on windows boxes. (I'm aware of MacParDeluxe and Split and Concat as well) But essentially it would be great to cut down usage of programs to archive to say.. ONE. I'm not a windows user but I've seen some windows users workflows for archiving their work and they can create archivable, "paritied" segments of their projects, and set multiple to go and let their computers do compressing while they sleep.
-which brings me to my next point: I'm a little peeved with my experience at DMG, ZIP, and STUFFIT. Here's why, keeping in mind, I'd love not to have to drop to command line to accomplish these tasks: Compress/decompress multiple folders of projects as separate archives simultaneously, maintain resource forks for legacy files-just in case.
DMG: *.dmg's are great, yet I believe I've found a issue with them... try mounting 3-4dmg's on your desktop from a portable drive each dmg having a couple hundred files in them (images often in my case). Then grab all those mounted dmgs to a local drive. The copy begins with counting... and disappears at times, no warning... and incomplete... I've logged this on macintouch with no response and have tried this with similar results on numerous pristine systems.
Also, in my experience in using a very nice program like DropDMG it does a GREAT job of creating dmgs for a folder at a time... but when attempting to set even two to go, one will error out.
ZIP: Once again, happy to see that I can now preserve resource forks natively in OSX through "Creative Archive..." Bummed when I try on occasion to expand a folder of 24 zip archives at once (Apple+A, Apple+O in a folder) and occasionally they start erroring out... (seems to happen with fonts a lot in my experience). And again/addtionally, any way to tap into compression settings.
STUFFIT: Aladdin...sigh They rose, they fell... OSX x'ed them, they seem to be better... but not quite. IMPRESSIVE compression with the stuffitX archives, but boy, they really start up the turbines on my machine and not to forget lets multitask the mac... I'd love to rightclick one folder after another and set 10 project folders to go overnight stuffing away.. but the instant proceed on the second archive while the first is going... i notice the first one either freezes or the progress bar stops givig me any accurate visual feedback.
So Wade, perhaps I've been going about my archiving all wrong, but I do know some of my concerns are well grounded and as I'd love to set my system to crunch away while I sleep without a concern in the world at night, I really don't think I need to be baby sitting a program while archiving or unarching and I'd love to feel secure in whatever format I choose for archiving/future forecasting. Please do share any thoughts suggestions you have on all this.
regards,
erg8t

Cannot compress the WebFolders file

Hi,
I encountered an error when I try to backup an AppSet.
It was Cannot compress the WebFolders file.
Anybody can help to solve this issue?
Thank you!
Sunny

To compress the webfolder the BPC is using zip of windows.
Windows zip can not be used if the appset webfolder is bigger than 2GB.
If the size of yor appsetr webfolder is smaller than 2GB then the problem it is other.
In this case you have a file without owner.
That's means you have to use explore to select the appfolder to click right and properties of that folder.
You have to go to security and click on button advance
Go to tab owner and there you have to be sure that you have at least one user.
Select check box "Replace owner..." and after that ok, ok, ok
After that you have to go one more time into security of that webfolder and to propagate the security to all childrens.
If you did all these things then you should be able to backup the appset. (at least to zip the webfolders)
Regards
Sorin Radulescu

When I compress my folder I lose my css styles

When I compress my folder I lose my css styles
Let me give a little bit more information,when and upload from dreamweaver it uploads in the browser with the css styles, but once I compress my folder it loses its styles, any help anybody.

Where my folder sits in my document I need to put it in a zip folder. before I place it in a zip folder I can open the folder and and view my html pages in the browser with the css styles. Works fine, but I need to put it into a zip folder so I can submit it for school project. The problem occurs when I do put it in a zip folder and I lose my css styles.
Just keep a quick note I have two drives which is my E: drive and my C: drive (I set it up on my E: drive, in the documents.) So only when I make the folder go into a zip folder where is directed to the C: drive in the temp folder and this is where I lose my css styles.
So when I initially set it up in dream weaver I set up my main root folder so it is on my E; drive which is in the library of the documents. In this folder are two other folders which is my images and css style sheets. In this main root folder I have my html pages. So I do have the css styles linked to all my html pages, they open fine in the browser from dream weaver.
Hope this is clear thanks for any help you can give.

How to compress a folder on a MacBook Pro OS 10.9.5?

How can I compress a folder, 13.9 MB, on my MacBook Pro OS 10.9.5. I've tried File > Compress but the folder remains the same size.

Thanks for your advice. I probably should have explained up front that all the files inside are PDFs that I'd already used Acrobat Preflight on to optimize for online publishing. I believe this make them as small as they can be. I was just hoping that I could still compress down the "umbrella" folder. The PDFs are in two folders inside it. I tried compressing those, too, but they didn't reduce in size either.

Unzipping multiple zips in same folder to ONE window...how?

I have numerous .zips in one folder and when I select all and double-click they open fine, but each to a separate window. In Tiger (Oh how I loved thee) all would appear unzipped in ONE single window instead of the current kaleidascopic mess. Any way around this? Thanks

hello, firefox has just a simple viewing capability for files on a ftp server. for more advanced functions please use an extension like fireftp: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/fireftp/

Zip compression stuttering

Hello,
I'm writing a program for Zip compressing some files but it's performance is quite odd. It zips the first four files very quickly and then stops for a long time (CPU usage=0%) when closing the 5th entry. Then it zips the next four files and stops again, this time when putting a new entry on the stream. Again, CPU usage=0%. Am I doing something wrong? Here's the code - the getfiles method returns all the files on a directory and is working correctly. Printing the letters a,b,c,d,e is only for debugging purposes.
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
        //get the files
        ArrayList files = getFiles(new File(args[0]));
        int i=0, numFiles=files.size();
        File result = new File("aux.zip"), aux=null;
        byte[] buffer;
        BufferedInputStream in;
        ZipOutputStream out = new ZipOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(result)));
        System.out.println("Number of files: "+numFiles);
        // Start the compression
        for (i=0; i<numFiles; i++) {
            aux = (File)files.get(i);
            System.out.println("Working on "+aux);
            in = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(aux));
            System.out.println("a");
            out.putNextEntry(new ZipEntry(aux.getPath()));
            System.out.println("b");
            int len;
            buffer = new byte[ (int)aux.length() ];
            while ((len = in.read(buffer)) > 0) {
                out.write(buffer, 0, len);
            System.out.println("c");
            out.closeEntry();
            System.out.println("d");
            in.close();
            System.out.println("e");
        out.close();
}Thanx in advance! :)

I tested the code with four small (<3kB) text files and once again, it blocked for a while closing the stream (not the entry) but it didn't create the zip file? Is my code OK?
I never debugged anything using that method, so I'd be thankful for some help. Here's what I got from Ctrl+Break:
Full thread dump Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0_01-b08 mixed mode):
"Low Memory Detector" daemon prio=5 tid=0x009c1ef0 nid=0x218 runnable [0x00000000..0x00000000]
"CompilerThread0" daemon prio=10 tid=0x009c09f8 nid=0x448 waiting on condition [0x00000000..0x0ac5f8bc]
"Signal Dispatcher" daemon prio=10 tid=0x009bfcb8 nid=0x1c8 waiting on condition [0x00000000..0x00000000]
"Finalizer" daemon prio=9 tid=0x009b70f8 nid=0x124 in Object.wait() [0x0abdf000..0x0abdfc64]
     at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
     - waiting on <0x02a80850> (a java.lang.ref.ReferenceQueue$Lock)
     at java.lang.ref.ReferenceQueue.remove(ReferenceQueue.java:116)
     - locked <0x02a80850> (a java.lang.ref.ReferenceQueue$Lock)
     at java.lang.ref.ReferenceQueue.remove(ReferenceQueue.java:132)
     at java.lang.ref.Finalizer$FinalizerThread.run(Finalizer.java:159)
"Reference Handler" daemon prio=10 tid=0x009b5c08 nid=0x3f4 in Object.wait() [0x0ab9f000..0x0ab9fce4]
     at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
     - waiting on <0x02a80760> (a java.lang.ref.Reference$Lock)
     at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:474)
     at java.lang.ref.Reference$ReferenceHandler.run(Reference.java:116)
     - locked <0x02a80760> (a java.lang.ref.Reference$Lock)
"main" prio=5 tid=0x00235ee0 nid=0x4e0 runnable [0x0006f000..0x0006fc38]
     at java.io.FileOutputStream.writeBytes(Native Method)
     at java.io.FileOutputStream.write(FileOutputStream.java:260)
     at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(BufferedOutputStream.java:65)
     at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flush(BufferedOutputStream.java:123)
     - locked <0x02aa6ed8> (a java.io.BufferedOutputStream)
     at java.io.FilterOutputStream.close(FilterOutputStream.java:140)
     at java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream.close(DeflaterOutputStream.java:144)
     at java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream.close(ZipOutputStream.java:310)
     at CryptoWorker.main(CryptoWorker.java:61)
"VM Thread" prio=10 tid=0x009b3208 nid=0x3d8 runnable
"VM Periodic Task Thread" prio=10 tid=0x009c3490 nid=0x2d4 waiting on condition

Zip/Compress a folder/file

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for