Compressing Stalker Gamma gives impossible compression rate

[digitalfrost84]

I compressed a Stalker Gamma folder, if I analyze it after it says size increased by 405%

[Iridium-IO]

If you check the folder's properties in Windows Explorer, what values do you see for Size and Size on Disk?

[digitalfrost84]

[Iridium-IO]

Can you open the folder in Windows explorer, then open Powershell from inside the folder (Right click any blank space > Open in Terminal/ Open in Powershell) and type compact and see what that says?

Mainly interested in the last two lines which will say something like:

134,980,464 total bytes of data are stored in 81,350,656 bytes.
The compression ratio is 1.7 to 1.

[digitalfrost84]

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PS F:\Gamma> compact

 Listing F:\Gamma\
 New files added to this directory will not be compressed.

        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   .Grok's Modpack Installer
   191488 :     94208 = 2,0 to 1 X boost_python38-vc142-mt-x64-1_75.dll
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   crashDumps
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   dlls
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   downloads
       49 :        49 = 1,0 to 1   dump_running_process.bat
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   explorer++
    28160 :     16384 = 1,7 to 1 X helper.exe
  3433984 :   1581056 = 2,2 to 1 X libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll
    32792 :     20480 = 1,6 to 1 X libffi-7.dll
   686592 :    299008 = 2,3 to 1 X libssl-1_1-x64.dll
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   licenses
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   logs
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   loot
  4704256 :   2478080 = 1,9 to 1 X ModOrganizer.exe
     5952 :      4096 = 1,5 to 1 X ModOrganizer.ini
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   mods
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   NCC
   122880 :     57344 = 2,1 to 1 X nxmhandler.exe
       28 :        28 = 1,0 to 1   nxmhandler.ini
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   nxmhandler.log
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   overwrite
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   platforms
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   plugins
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   portable.txt
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   profiles
  4997632 :   2600960 = 1,9 to 1 X python38.dll
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   pythoncore
  2462270 :   2462270 = 1,0 to 1   pythoncore.zip
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   QtQml
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   QtQuick.2
   591344 :    339968 = 1,7 to 1 X QtWebEngineProcess.exe
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   resources
  1042885 :   1042885 = 1,0 to 1   splash.png
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   styles
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   stylesheets
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   translations
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   tutorials
   934912 :    417792 = 2,2 to 1 X uibase.dll
   891392 :    483328 = 1,8 to 1 X usvfs_proxy_x64.exe
   711680 :    405504 = 1,8 to 1 X usvfs_proxy_x86.exe
  1566208 :    827392 = 1,9 to 1 X usvfs_x64.dll
  1363968 :    737280 = 1,9 to 1 X usvfs_x86.dll
        0 :         0 = 1,0 to 1   webcache

Of 44 files within 1 directories
15 are compressed and 29 are not compressed.
23.768.472 total bytes of data are stored in 13.868.112 bytes.
The compression ratio is 1,7 to 1.

PS F:\Gamma>

[Iridium-IO]

Sorry, I gave you the wrong command.

Can you try: compact /S

That will show the size of the whole directory including subfolders. I only need the last few lines.

[Wenbobobo]

me too amaziiing()

[Wenbobobo]

This seems to be related to the file to be compressed, especially when it contains compressed files. And when there are only a few compressed files inside, it seems more inclined to crash....

[Iridium-IO]

I downloaded Gamma and I can't replicate the issue. I haven't gone through the full installation process because far out that's a painful set of steps and it's a total of ~50GB

I can't replicate the issue with Gamma folder on my end.

If you can drill down into exactly which subfolder is causing the issue, then list the files in that folder, that would be a great help :)

[digitalfrost84]

I can still replicate it even with the latest version I just downloaded (3.0):

Compact /s output is attached as file.

gamma.txt

[Iridium-IO]

The compact /S output isn't helping sadly, it all looks normal.

Do you mind opening each of the subfolders in compactGUI and seeing which ones look normal and which ones go crazy?

[digitalfrost84]

It's the mods folder.

I look at biggest folders with the tool and others randomly. With a single folder inside I cannot replicate it, but I haven't looked at all (it's a lot).

mods.txt

If it helps I could upload the whole folder somewhere. I also copied the folder to a different drive just to check for any file system issues.

Maybe this is related? Both are NTFS...

If I analyze this copied folder.

[Iridium-IO]

Excellent detective work there, I think you're getting closer to the issue.

The file paths being too long is a good hint actually.

Can you try following these steps here: https://www.howtogeek.com/266621/how-to-make-windows-10-accept-file-paths-over-260-characters/

And see if that helps the mods folder report accurately at all?

I'll also start downloading the full setup today just in case that's not the issue

[digitalfrost84]

I already have the key LongPathsEnabled set to 1.