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Every file and folder on my system is blue, and I notice the check box is checked to compress. Again, I never elected to do this. Comment from Andy Rathbone Time January 16, at pm.
Comment from Yvonne Time March 24, at am. Comment from Emileo Kahill Time March 31, at am. Comment from Krishna verma Time April 15, at am. Comment from Dave Time May 10, at am. If I copy blue files onto another hard drive, will they still be compressed? I need to move them from an XP computer to a Windows 7 computer, and many necessary data files are in Program Files or Documents and Settings.
Comment from Andy Rathbone Time May 10, at am. Dave: The answer depends on how your new PC is set up. Try copying one file over and see if it stays compressed blue. That will give you the answer. Comment from Lisa Time July 31, at pm. The 2nd solution helped me with the folder options.
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When uncheck both options from Compress and Encrypted attributes, is there any data loss while decrypting and decompressing. Comment from Andy Rathbone Time December 17, at am. Comment from Dean D. Time February 11, at pm. So what files are good candidates for compression? Now, as for compressing files or folders, simply right -click on the file or folder you want to compress, click on Properties , click on the Advanced button, and you should see something like this:.
Since you might be tempted, I recommend against Windows built-in file encryption unless you truly understand the ramifications. If you need encryption, I recommend a solution like TrueCrypt instead. Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week.
If we lose the key the data remains encrypted unless someone can crack it. So apparently, the risk is pretty much the same. Or is it? On top of that TrueCrypt containers are portable, platform independent and can be transferred in encrypted form. Not always true for Windows file system encryption — if you copy a file it travels unencrypted. I am actually interested in doing teh reverse, uncompress. Is there a way to uncompress the files that were compressed as old compressed files.
I activated clean disk and realized it was going to delete all my old compressed files, I then cancelled the action and later found a lot of my files to be blue in script. Does this mean those are all compressed files and if so, how do I uncompredd them?
Leo, thanks for some very useful information. I have just been battling with updating my McAfee protection and was disturbed to see all the file names in blue. Your webpage which I found on Google gave me the answer quickly and helpfully. Thanks, Leo! I appreciate the help! But others are audio files I have not compressed. Some are Cakewalk the audio recording software I use project files which I have not compressed. Often when I try to open these I get a message saying that audio has been replaced with silence and that the file cannot be found.
When I open it, there is silence, and a straight line where there should be audio waves. Considering the comment above about clean disk, if I have run disk defragmentation or disk check would those eliminate audio? I unchecked them, the files now show in black but there is still no audio.
Thanks Leo, I was confused why my files were looking in Blue. After the upgrade some files were in blue. I assumed blue files were of little use and deleted several of them.
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