Rats cause what I wanna compress is MP3 and off/XLS files in the same folder
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 26, 2015, at 10:26 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries > <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > I compressed my copy of Keynote, which is really made up of thousands of > files under the hood totaling 611,951,069 bytes (692.5 MB). To test unix > compress I did > > tar -zcvf test.gz /Applications/Keynote.app/ > > which generated a compressed file of 428,440,218 bytes (428.4MB) or about > 61.9% of the original file size. Doing the same thing through the finder I > selected Keynote and then chose Compress from the File menu. That generated a > zip file of 453,379,578 butes (453.4 MB) or 65.5%. Just for the fun of it I > also tried doing a 7-Zip. Downloaded a 7-Zip app for OSX from here: > > http://www.updatestar.com/directdownload/7zx/2188433 > > which generated a .7z file of 375,098,819 bytes (375.1MB) or about 54%. So it > looks like 7-zip is the smallest (11% smaller than plain zip in my test) but > the downside is that it's not very popular. If you send this to someone else > they will have to go through the bother of finding, downloading and > installing an app to uncompressed it. Pretty much everyone can handle a zip > file without much trouble. > > As with all compression, the results are also based on what you are > compressing. Text, which has lots of repeating patterns, compresses really > well. Binary files such as audio, video and images might not compress at all. > > CB > >> On 3/25/15 7:38 PM, Joe Quinn wrote: >> now that SArchiver’s gone down the tubes? what’s the best archiving utility >> for the mac? i wanna be able to compress files as small as humanly possible, >> but still retain quality. thanks for any info! > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
