"Compress old files"

When I do Disk Cleanup, I see typically
over 1 GB of Old Files to Compress.
I allow it to do the cleanup, and when
it is finished, and I do it again, I find
again, 1+ GB of files to clean up.

What is it telling me?

"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
...

When I do Disk Cleanup, I see typically
over 1 GB of Old Files to Compress.
I allow it to do the cleanup, and when
it is finished, and I do it again, I find
again, 1+ GB of files to clean up.

What is it telling me?

Apparently that you omitted to check
the right box when authorizing cleanup.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

William B. Lurie said this on 1/16/2009 1:14 PM:
When I do Disk Cleanup, I see typically
over 1 GB of Old Files to Compress.
I allow it to do the cleanup, and when
it is finished, and I do it again, I find
again, 1+ GB of files to clean up.

What is it telling me?

It is telling you, if you compress the files it has determined to be old
(not used in x number of days) then you will save that much space.

You don't have to, but if you do they will be uncompressed as needed.
They will show in blue in the directory when you find them.

Don Phillipson wrote:
"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
...

When I do Disk Cleanup, I see typically
over 1 GB of Old Files to Compress.
I allow it to do the cleanup, and when
it is finished, and I do it again, I find
again, 1+ GB of files to clean up.

What is it telling me?

Apparently that you omitted to check
the right box when authorizing cleanup.

Sorry, Don. That's too simplistic an answer.
I did it twice more, observed that the box
is checked each time, results the same.

Big_Al wrote:
William B. Lurie said this on 1/16/2009 1:14 PM:
When I do Disk Cleanup, I see typically
over 1 GB of Old Files to Compress.
I allow it to do the cleanup, and when
it is finished, and I do it again, I find
again, 1+ GB of files to clean up.

What is it telling me?

It is telling you, if you compress the files it has determined to be old
(not used in x number of days) then you will save that much space.

You don't have to, but if you do they will be uncompressed as needed.
They will show in blue in the directory when you find them.

Thanks, Big Al; what you said, I already understood.
My question is, why does it still show 1 GB of
files to be compressed after 3 go-arounds?

Is compression enabled for the drive?

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com


"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
...
Big_Al wrote:
William B. Lurie said this on 1/16/2009 1:14 PM:
When I do Disk Cleanup, I see typically
over 1 GB of Old Files to Compress.
I allow it to do the cleanup, and when
it is finished, and I do it again, I find
again, 1+ GB of files to clean up.

What is it telling me?

It is telling you, if you compress the files it has determined to be old
(not used in x number of days) then you will save that much space.

You don't have to, but if you do they will be uncompressed as needed.
They will show in blue in the directory when you find them.

Thanks, Big Al; what you said, I already understood.
My question is, why does it still show 1 GB of
files to be compressed after 3 go-arounds?

I just checked two partitions that I know have
old files (but Drive Compression) is turned off.
In my case Disk Cleanup does not show any
files to be compressed so I guess you do have
drive compression turned on.

Ignore my earlier post

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com


"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
...
Big_Al wrote:
William B. Lurie said this on 1/16/2009 1:14 PM:
When I do Disk Cleanup, I see typically
over 1 GB of Old Files to Compress.
I allow it to do the cleanup, and when
it is finished, and I do it again, I find
again, 1+ GB of files to clean up.

What is it telling me?

It is telling you, if you compress the files it has determined to be old
(not used in x number of days) then you will save that much space.

You don't have to, but if you do they will be uncompressed as needed.
They will show in blue in the directory when you find them.

Thanks, Big Al; what you said, I already understood.
My question is, why does it still show 1 GB of
files to be compressed after 3 go-arounds?

JS wrote:
I just checked two partitions that I know have
old files (but Drive Compression) is turned off.
In my case Disk Cleanup does not show any
files to be compressed so I guess you do have
drive compression turned on.

Ignore my earlier post

Thanks for both messages, JS ...
But I've never heard of On/Off of disk compression.
How do I look for it?

Right click on the drive letter and select 'Properties'
The box to enable is located in the bottom left of
the Properties window.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com


"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
...
JS wrote:
I just checked two partitions that I know have
old files (but Drive Compression) is turned off.
In my case Disk Cleanup does not show any
files to be compressed so I guess you do have
drive compression turned on.

Ignore my earlier post

Thanks for both messages, JS ...
But I've never heard of On/Off of disk compression.
How do I look for it?

JS

Is that a good thing to do?


--



Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
JS wrote:
Right click on the drive letter and select 'Properties'
The box to enable is located in the bottom left of
the Properties window.


"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
...
JS wrote:
I just checked two partitions that I know have
old files (but Drive Compression) is turned off.
In my case Disk Cleanup does not show any
files to be compressed so I guess you do have
drive compression turned on.

Ignore my earlier post

Thanks for both messages, JS ...
But I've never heard of On/Off of disk compression.
How do I look for it?

If you mean turn on drive compression....
I don't use it, but I would guess to for some users
that have data files stored on a separate drive or partition
that they don't use on a frequent basis it may be of some value.

Since one of the partitions my third drive is storage for
Image backups, for me it makes no sense to compress
what is already compressed by the image backup utility.

The other partition on drive #2 contain some databases
I developed and I don't think compressing these would
be a good idea.

Yes I do have some old photos that are a mixture
of .BMP .TIFF and Jpeg, but .TIFF and Jpeg are already
compressed.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com


"Gerry" wrote in message
...
JS

Is that a good thing to do?


--



Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
JS wrote:
Right click on the drive letter and select 'Properties'
The box to enable is located in the bottom left of
the Properties window.


"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
...
JS wrote:
I just checked two partitions that I know have
old files (but Drive Compression) is turned off.
In my case Disk Cleanup does not show any
files to be compressed so I guess you do have
drive compression turned on.

Ignore my earlier post

Thanks for both messages, JS ...
But I've never heard of On/Off of disk compression.
How do I look for it?

JS

Yes I can see it might be some use where the entire drive is an archive
but if there is a mixture of archive and current it use might not be
helpful in performance terms. What happens if the volume is full of
compressed files you could get the situation that the file will not open
because of insufficient free space.

--



Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


JS wrote:
If you mean turn on drive compression....
I don't use it, but I would guess to for some users
that have data files stored on a separate drive or partition
that they don't use on a frequent basis it may be of some value.

Since one of the partitions my third drive is storage for
Image backups, for me it makes no sense to compress
what is already compressed by the image backup utility.

The other partition on drive #2 contain some databases
I developed and I don't think compressing these would
be a good idea.

Yes I do have some old photos that are a mixture
of .BMP .TIFF and Jpeg, but .TIFF and Jpeg are already
compressed.


"Gerry" wrote in message
...
JS

Is that a good thing to do?


--



Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
JS wrote:
Right click on the drive letter and select 'Properties'
The box to enable is located in the bottom left of
the Properties window.


"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
...
JS wrote:
I just checked two partitions that I know have
old files (but Drive Compression) is turned off.
In my case Disk Cleanup does not show any
files to be compressed so I guess you do have
drive compression turned on.

Ignore my earlier post

Thanks for both messages, JS ...
But I've never heard of On/Off of disk compression.
How do I look for it?

JS wrote:
Right click on the drive letter and select 'Properties'
The box to enable is located in the bottom left of
the Properties window.

Well, I have done it carefully three times.
The enabling box *is* checked. I have 740 MB of
files that it *should* be compressing, but is
not. All I can think of, is that those files
have all been used in the last one day, and so
it is not compressing them.

Any other suggestions?

Check the files 'Accessed' and 'Modified' attributes.

--
JS
http://www.pagestart.com


"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
...
JS wrote:
Right click on the drive letter and select 'Properties'
The box to enable is located in the bottom left of
the Properties window.

Well, I have done it carefully three times.
The enabling box *is* checked. I have 740 MB of
files that it *should* be compressing, but is
not. All I can think of, is that those files
have all been used in the last one day, and so
it is not compressing them.

Any other suggestions?

JS wrote:
Check the files 'Accessed' and 'Modified' attributes.

JS, that leads me into *another* area where I have not
been before. Check attributes of files? 700 MB of files?
Any specific ones, or just a random selection......and
specifically how?