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Hey Rami?

dvslats

dvslats

Charter Member
Hi Rami,

Since your the librarian at SOH, what's your view on uploading files using another compression utility.
Say "7-zip".

Would this create a headache for you or the SOH computer system?

The reason I ask is that a file I'm preparing to upload was zipped with windows zip and done again with 7-zip.

Original size = 109.53 KB
Windows zip = 60.692 KB
7-zip = 35.289 KB

That's quite a difference in size.

Upload and download times could be cut in half. And hard drive space for storage would be less also.

I'm just throwing this out there because I was so surprised in the difference.

Cheerz,
Dave
 
Reply...

Dvslats,

I agree with the idea in principle, but the larger issue is to make sure that we allow for ease of usage. .zip, or compressed files, are universally able to be opened by Macs, Linux-based systems, as well as Windows-based systems. the .7zip and .rar files typically require programs in order to accomplish this.

I would rather focus on ease-of-use rather than size...but that's me.
 
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