just a little question

[jvidalw]

Hi, I recently discovered CompactGUI and I'm giving it a try. I am pleasantly surprised so far.
But, I have a question, when you compress a folder with compactUI, windows explorer doesn't show it in blue and if you look at the folder properties, windows explorer does not recognize the folder as "compressed" (the checkmark next to "compress to save space" is unchecked.
Is this normal? it's kinda difficult to know which folder is compressed with compactgui without having to check the folder properties and notice the assigned space is less that the actual size...

[jvidalw]

Oh, and I also noticed that you can compress a folder with windws explorer and then compress it even further with compactGUI. And, if you uncompress it, you arr still left with the NTFS-compressed folder, instead of the original size folder.
it's kinda weird...

[jvidalw]

and another thing, compactGUI will not uncompress a folder that has been previously compressed using windows explorer (checking the check box next to "compress to save disk space")

[Masamune3210]

Explorer only checks for one or two types of compression, it doesn't check for all. Not much the program can do about it
Side effect of how the compression and decompression works. The program will only undo what it did, not what other parts of the system or the user did
Correct, it wont to avoid a bug, if you want to compress a file with the program, remove explorer's compression first

[jvidalw]

thanks! I was under the impression that CompactGUI was just another way of doing the same thing windows explorer does when compressing.

[Masamune3210]

Nope, think of it as Explorer's compression, but actually offering all the ways to compress things the system natively supports instead of showing a dialog from Windows XP lol

[jvidalw]

The only thing I "don't like" is that there's no easy way to tell wether s/thing is compressed or not, unlike explorer's compression, which shows compressed files in a different color...

[jvidalw]

Oh, and another thing you can't do is compress indivual files or sets of files, you must compress a whole folder...
maybe this feature could be added.

[jvidalw]

I found another issue, whenever you compact a folder, if you add new files or update the files inside the folder, they're not compressed automatically, like windows explorer does, you have to re-compress manually.