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Please help me with stupid Compress old files NTFS

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Mareg

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Hi all,

I'm desperate because I did a clean disk on my gaming partition and forgot to discard the option for "do not compress old files". Now, stupid Windows compressed I don't know how many files on this partition and I am desperate to find a way to uncompress them.

Thanks, and if you also know, I would like to know the entry to disable this option in the registry.
 
Right click on the folder or file you want to uncompress.
Click "Properties".
On the "General" tab, click "Advanced".
Uncheck "Compress contents to save disk space".
Click "OK" twice.
 
Can I do it recursively on all files of the folder tree ?
Oh and I never activated the "compress contents to save disk space" for any folder of any drive. I'm not sure your suggestion would work.
 
Originally posted by: Mareg
Can I do it recursively on all files of the folder tree ?
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It will give you the choice of applying it only to the folder, or applying it to all the contents of the folder as well.
Oh and I never activated the "compress contents to save disk space" for any folder of any drive. I'm not sure your suggestion would work.
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You ran disk cleanup, didn't you? Disk cleanup offers to compress old files. I thought you said you forgot to disable that. Now, you say did not compress. I am not sure what you did.

The file and folder names that are compressed that way are blue. You can uncompress them as I told you.

Good luck.
 
probably lived thru windows 95 the compression years

we don't need no MS compression
but they keep pushing it


heck, I don't think XP even supports old drivespace
so maybe in future MS OS..es they won't support NTFS ?
 
I actually answered the other thread you started in General Hardware.

Since others may need the answer as well, I'll post it again in here.

Run this from the command prompt to uncompress everything on your C partition. repeat for d:\, e:\, etc as needed.

compact /u /s:c:

run 'compact /?' to see all options.

you can delete the following registry key to stop this from happening in the future

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Compress old files
 
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