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Compression...afterthough

wscottartwscottart Posts: 447
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Question for you long time pc users as I'm a long time mac user

1. I have all my content basically sitting on the D drive, and it is not compressed. Should I have choose compression in the beginning?

2. Can I choose to compress this drive now?

3. Would that affect Daz Studio reading the content from that drive at all? Would all my smart content and stuff still function? I realize it might slow down the read write speed, but will it mess anything up?

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  • galiengalien Posts: 138
    edited April 2020

    With Windows you can compress at the folder level as an alternative to compressing the full drive

    About a month ago, I compressed my Daz Studio content folder and this reduced the size on disk from 452Gb to 320Gb.  It took about 4 hours to compress all the files.

    Technically, there will be an additional overhead in decompressing the files as they are used, but I've not noticed any difference.  It should be transparent, so should not cause any issues (I don't use smart content though, so cannot vouch for that).

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  • wscottartwscottart Posts: 447
    edited April 2020

    Four hour's well mayby when life gets back to normal. I don't want to tie up my content while I have all this time to be using it.

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  • galiengalien Posts: 138

    It estimated that it was going to take 13 hours, so I was happy when it finished in just 4 hours.

     

  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,078

    Hard drives are cheap, content grows, time is precious.

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