Existing users, 
7zX
file archiver with high compression ratio
Version: 1.7.1
Format seems good but not the program
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: maurer Saturday, March 25 2006 @ 08:56 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
I got it to work only for a 500K JPEG but for 10MB TFFs it appeared to be running in an endless loop. I ran the accompanying debugger but it did not create the log file it was supposed to. Although this compression format sounds good, to entrust files to a compression tool at this level of development would be foolish.
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Try a non-compressed file format - phantasm
Perhaps you missed that day in Computing 101 but most media formats these days are already stored in a compressed fashion and trying to compress them further is usually going to be futile. This would include jpg, gif, mp3, m4a, png, mov, mpg, avi, mp4, etc. etc. Basically almost all formats except for BMP and uncompressed DV are going to already be stored compressed. PDF's are also usually compressed (but not always), TXT/DOC/XLS/PPT is not and will probably compress well.Monday, March 27 2006 @ 02:10 PM PST
Try a non-compressed file format - nomail1
Try it yourself then. :DMonday, March 27 2006 @ 02:31 PM PST
Format seems good but not the program - nomail1
You should give it a while, especially if you have a slow machine. On my computer, a 1.0GHz G4, it compressed a 10 MB picture in 5 seconds, sending out a 1.9 MB archive.If you want to send me a copy of the file, I will be able to perform more tests.
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