Existing users, 
File full of pictures = 73.5 megs. "Compressed" file from 7zX = 76megs. WTF? What's the point of a "compression" program that makes a BIGGER file?
Garbage.
7zX
file archiver with high compression ratio
Version: 1.7.1
It "compressed" my file into a BIGGER file.
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Contributed by: molex1000 Sunday, July 29 2007 @ 10:19 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
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It "compressed" my file into a BIGGER file. - balancedview
the Jpeg (jpg) picture format is already a compressed data format.(which is why it is used in so many digital cameras, except for high end which save huge 'raw' or tiff files)
And, though not explicitly stated, almost all data compression programs, when told to compress an already compressed file, will either leave it same size, or make it bigger. This is just due to the rather complex data examination and compression formulas. Not a fault of 7zx, others will often do same.
though there is one case of benefit to compressing digital photos - when you want to create a single archive file which contains one or more folders of many pictures. In this operation, you would compress the folder and then you have ony one result file (compressed, or at least, combined) to deal with. Often easier to send an email with a single such file.
Friday, September 07 2007 @ 10:56 AM PDT
It "compressed" my file into a BIGGER file. - andreas_skoglund
Probably because the file you compressed already were compressed?Reply to This
Tuesday, July 31 2007 @ 02:46 AM PDT