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Freaky / Compactor

A user interface for Windows 10 filesystem compression
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What Windows folders are safe to compact? (LZX) #19

Closed necros2k7 closed 4 years ago

necros2k7 commented 4 years ago

Tried whole folder - Recovery mode after reboot)

Freaky commented 4 years ago

I'm sorry to hear that. What folder specifically did you try?

Most things other than the base Windows folder should be fairly safe - the Windows folder itself (assuming it's called *:\Windows) and any file specifically tagged with the system flag should be skipped, as mentioned in the README.

Generally I'd recommend limiting it to your Program Files folder, or a Steam folder. Not things like your user profile.

The Windows folder can be safely compressed using compact.exe via the CompactOS feature - this is specifically not supported by Compactor itself.

necros2k7 commented 4 years ago

It`s OK it was test VM) Ok got it, thanx

TPS commented 4 years ago

compact.exe /CompactOS:always is designed to do this safely.

@Freaky Maybe you wish to expose this via your UI? N.B.: this can take hours, so should be done async/in the background. I've found running it @ realtime priority maxes out disk usage @ 100% (duh), but cpu <4%.