If you want to free up storage space without deleting files, enabling NTFS (New Technology File System) compression is a good idea. I’ll show you how this works and how to enable it for your files or ...

In the world of Linux, file compression is a routine yet critical task, serving the dual purpose of saving disk space and speeding up file transfers. With several compression tools at your disposal, ...

The compression and decompression of files is one the most useful inventions in the history of computing, but the lack of portable and open tools poses a major obstacle to making the process as useful ...

Click to viewWhether you've been sent a simple ZIP archive, you need to create and share your own compressed files, or you're staring down the barrel of some obscure archive format you've never seen ...

One of my favorite aspects of macOS is the endless supply of great utilities for doing anything you can imagine. If there’s ...

In his research, Professor Marko Huhtanen from the University of Oulu, who specializes in applied and computational ...

With the Windows 8.1 Update, Microsoft shrank the Windows 8.1 install footprint to make it suitable for low-cost tablets with just 16GB of permanent storage, a reduction from the 32GB generally ...

Q: Can you explain the differences between compression, file deduplication and data deduplication? A: All of these products fit into an overall market and technical concept, which is capacity ...

Chances are good that you’ve witnessed a wide variety of file formats flit across your screen, but do you really understand what they mean? For example, you may understand that a JPEG is for pictures ...