File Compresser

blake · Post by **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..

Post by **hfric** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 1:51 pm

try this:
winuha - http://www.softpedia.com/get/Compressio ... nUHA.shtml
or
winace - http://www.winace.com/

Post by **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.

Xeon · Post by **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.

Post by **hfric** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:42 pm

so tell me this why so many rips are compresed in uhar hmmm ...

NE0 · Post by **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

Post by **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.

NE0 · Post by **NE0** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:51 pm

Heh...today's rips are a mess

...ive seen rips from small sizes to 400+ mb...what are todays rules btw

Xeon · Post by **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).

NE0 · Post by **NE0** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 12:20 pm

yeah but 7zip beats rar and ace...

Post by **3DShootMaster** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:13 pm

Hmm don't know for sure...

Post by **AtoMiC_PoTaTo** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:24 pm

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

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.

Post by **hfric** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:20 pm

so the winner is ....... 7zip

Post by **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.

Xeon · Post by **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.