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    Winrar questions

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by 123456, Jul 11, 2007.

  1. 123456

    123456 Notebook Consultant

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    I have to compress a lot of files, including documents, music, and programs. I have Winrar but have a few questions about it.

    1. Does it use lossless compression?

    2. How does the recovery thing work? Everything will be in one large archive. Will it help?

    3. Is there a difference in extracting times when using best or fastest compression? Obviously, the fastest setting will compress the files faster, but will it also decompress them faster?
     
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    jimc Notebook Consultant

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    1.Yes
    2.If the archive gets corrupt it can try to use the recovery information to recover the corrupt data.
    3.Don't think so
     
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    123456 Notebook Consultant

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    What exactly is on the recovery information? I think the default setting is 1% of the archive, so what are the actual chances of recovering a corrupt file?
     
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