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Freaky / Compactor

A user interface for Windows 10 filesystem compression
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No signs of compression #34

Closed Chalvrae closed 3 years ago

Chalvrae commented 3 years ago

Compactor claims that some files were compressed and tells me how many GiB were saved, but my disk is still as full as before. Free space didn't change at all, numbers are still the same. Why is that?

elopez172365 commented 3 years ago

Same issue here, no evidence of compression

Freaky commented 3 years ago

Are you refreshing whatever you're using to measure it?

I believe the culprit last time this came up was expecting the free space display to automatically update itself, but compression/decompression doesn't trigger whatever events Explorer/Disk Properties/etc monitor to do that.

elopez172365 commented 3 years ago

thank

Chalvrae commented 3 years ago

I believe the culprit last time this came up was expecting the free space display to automatically update itself, but compression/decompression doesn't trigger whatever events Explorer/Disk Properties/etc monitor to do that.

Makes sense, then what would be the best way of measuring it? Where is it up to date?

Freaky commented 3 years ago

Just refresh it when you measure it. Hit F5 in Explorer or reopen the Properties dialog if it hasn't changed.

Of course, now I've said it doesn't trigger updates, every time I try it, it updates, so it's probably better described as just being unreliable. For... reasons. Microsoft reasons.