Iridium-IO
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3 months ago A: not really B: you can, but the external drive needs to be formatted as NTFS. You should also just use a backup program that will compress backups anyway C: It won't let you select your entire C drive, but for anything else yes technically it should just skip over what can't be compressed
LZX is generally too intensive for most usecases unless you intend to basically never change the contents of the folder.
First off, thanks Dev. It warms my heart seeing projects motivated to keep our devices out of landfills longer and help those who can't easily replace their devices be able to wring a little more time out of them.
A. Other than the GUI and ease of selecting the degree of compression are there and advantages or disadvantages over using this with Windows 10 or 11?
B. Is it possible and/or advisable to use with a dedicated external storage device for things like backups?
C. You addressed this I just want to be very sure I got it right: if I select my entire C drive the program will exclude whatever paths shouldn't be compressed?
A comment: on my old Lenovo p52 running Windows 11 x64 23h2 the algorithm with the strongest compression is pretty much unusable for 100gb+ folders (Downloads, for example). Possibly I'm using it wrong or my own hardware limitations. Just thought I'd mention it in case it means anything. The 3rd strongest is snappy given how performative it is in freeing up GBs.