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Postby blake » Sun Apr 03, 2005 1:26 am

Anyone know of a good file compresser that can save a lot of memory for a ftp?? Because I got 2 3.16gig folders and I need to compress those to atleast a gig or so (whatever works really) so i can upload these to my ftp.. any suggestions would be great..
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Postby hfric » Sun Apr 03, 2005 1:51 pm

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Postby dead-meat » Sun Apr 03, 2005 2:07 pm

WinRAR is compressing almost as good as uhar, but is much faster. Gotta be around 3 times faster or so.
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Postby Xeon » Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:29 pm

yeah, RAR rocks the boat in most cases. UHAs are far slower and doesnt even offer significant improvement most of the time, just like 7-zip. same case for decompression.
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Postby hfric » Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:42 pm

so tell me this why so many rips are compresed in uhar hmmm ...
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Postby NE0 » Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:37 am

7Zip is good also...best compression i've seen so far...and to respond to your last question...some rips use uharc compression for audio data mostly...from what i've seen...i might be wrong
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Postby dead-meat » Mon Apr 04, 2005 11:22 am

Uharc is still a little bit better.. and rips are done under strict rules. So every kb is important. But uharc's effect is that packing and unpacking will take far longer than other formats.
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Postby NE0 » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:51 pm

Heh...today's rips are a mess :D...ive seen rips from small sizes to 400+ mb...what are todays rules btw :?:
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Postby Xeon » Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:30 pm

7-zip doesnt have recovery options, or at least thats what i saw from using the program (which i dont do often).
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Postby NE0 » Tue Apr 05, 2005 12:20 pm

yeah but 7zip beats rar and ace... :P
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Postby 3DShootMaster » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:13 pm

Hmm don't know for sure...
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Postby AtoMiC_PoTaTo » Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:24 pm

NeoRAGERx wrote:yeah but 7zip beats rar and ace... :P

3DShootMaster wrote:Hmm don't know for sure...

Sure it does! I used it for my worms fort under siege rip and it compressed better than uharc.
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Postby hfric » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:20 pm

so the winner is ....... 7zip :lol:
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Postby AtoMiC_PoTaTo » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:17 pm

Well it depends on the files you have to compress but uharc and 7zip are almost always giving the same result.
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Postby Xeon » Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:21 pm

i based my opinion on features tradeoff and recovery option is definitely something i consider when dealing with massive files to compress. and btw, 7-zip may require helluva lot of RAM but thats dependant on settings though, so hopefully, you have it. no idea on UHARC.
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