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ok, so i got a little problem or rather a worry :
i had 352mb of free space and a zip file of 470+mb on the same hdd.
as i didnt need some of the files in that zip, i deleted them (around 50mb).
i did so directly out of winzip 10, which actually makes a new file out of the old
but without the selected (deleted) files. i must mention here that the compress-ratio
of those files was 0% (that is, from my 470mb file in the beginning i would get a 420mb file).
as winzip makes a new temp file before deleting the old zip, its clearly that the temporary
420mb file couldnt fit on my 352mb free space.
and there's my worry.
it went all thru. win xp showed some warning (several times) about you're memory is low, do a cleanup etc
but as winzip froze (for a while) i couldnt do anything fast enough (also it took me a while to figure out whats happening).
ok, so after a few min, winzip unfroze, the process was done, i got a new zip file of 420mb, all working fine
and the old one deleted, but also 465mb of free space (rather than the expected 352mb + ~50mb = ~ 400mb). so if i do the math, some 100mb of space was freed, but i deleted only 50mb.
here's my worry: where did those extra 50mb come from? or what was deleted???
i repeat: compress ratio was 0% and i didnt do any cleanup
did windows xp (or winzip) delete some files by its own? and how would i know which ones?
thanks in advance
i had 352mb of free space and a zip file of 470+mb on the same hdd.
as i didnt need some of the files in that zip, i deleted them (around 50mb).
i did so directly out of winzip 10, which actually makes a new file out of the old
but without the selected (deleted) files. i must mention here that the compress-ratio
of those files was 0% (that is, from my 470mb file in the beginning i would get a 420mb file).
as winzip makes a new temp file before deleting the old zip, its clearly that the temporary
420mb file couldnt fit on my 352mb free space.
and there's my worry.
it went all thru. win xp showed some warning (several times) about you're memory is low, do a cleanup etc
but as winzip froze (for a while) i couldnt do anything fast enough (also it took me a while to figure out whats happening).
ok, so after a few min, winzip unfroze, the process was done, i got a new zip file of 420mb, all working fine
and the old one deleted, but also 465mb of free space (rather than the expected 352mb + ~50mb = ~ 400mb). so if i do the math, some 100mb of space was freed, but i deleted only 50mb.
here's my worry: where did those extra 50mb come from? or what was deleted???
i repeat: compress ratio was 0% and i didnt do any cleanup
did windows xp (or winzip) delete some files by its own? and how would i know which ones?
thanks in advance