ZFS compression is the free storage upgrade my NAS needed, but only for some files.

"The file I'm attaching is too large, please make it smaller." When you receive a request like this at work, is it enough ...

Thanks to ever-growing hard-drive capacities and ever-faster network connections, compressing files isn’t quite the vital and frequent task it used to be. Still, it’s useful in certain situations; for ...

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Compressed Linux files are helpful because they save disk space, but what should you do when you have a series of compressed files and want to determine if any are duplicates? The zdiff and zcmp ...

Zip files are the simplest and most basic compressed file types for compressing several files into one. Zip files are referred to as compressed files, because they reduce the overall file size ...

Rogue Amoeba (makers of cool sound tools, such as Audio Hijack / Pro and Airfoil) has released Fission, a unique sound editor that allows for “Lossless” editing of compressed (mp3, AAC) audio files.

There are quite a few ways to search through compressed text files on Linux systems without having to uncompress them first. Depending on the format of the files, you can choose to view entire files, ...

File compression software condenses digital files or folders so they occupy less disk space. This is accomplished by reducing redundancy in the code of a file (lossless compression) or by eliminating ...

A variety of Mac applications compress files, but two simple commands native to macOS fulfill the same functionality–often more quickly and for less expense. macOS possesses a number of Terminal ...