Zipping Files

[julia8012]

I have a webpage I don't want to delete but don't need to access at this time. I've read the information about zipping and un-zipping files and just don't understand it. I have an html page with contains quite a few larger photos, all within a single directory. Should I zip the entire directory from my root page, or should I zip each individually, the photos and the html page? And then after zipping, should I delete the original items I've just zipped, assuming they will still be there when I un-zip it/them? This probably sounds as confused as I am! TIA for your help for this tech-challenged gal! Julia

[Kari]

Hi Julia,

If you're not using the images anywhere else, and are not using the webpage at this time, you can zip them all together. The zip file will contain a copy of everything, so you can delete the originals.

Kari

[Randall K. Majorhead]

Hi!
I always want to be sure, I HAVE to see for myself, so - open the directory and check all the boxes of everything you want to "save", including the page, images, or images you may want to use later on that page or just "check all" at the bottom.

Now go to the bottom and hit zipfiles and you will get a long list of all files to be zipped.
Simply put the name you want to remember entire "set" by and click the button.
Now when you go back into the directory all the files will be there including the zipfile.
Just check all to be deleted - be sure Box is NOT CHECKED ON THE ZIPFILE only and delete them.

Here is a quickie tip....
After you hit zipfiles, hit back twice and you will get to the page where you first checked all the files to be zipped up. There will be no zipfile, just the ones you checked previously.
Simply hit the delete button and all the ones chosen will be gone, and the page will "refresh" to just the zipfile and any pages/images you did not want to zip.

This is useful when zipping part of a large directory where you only want to zip part of it, or what goes to one page but not another, so you don't have to pick and chose, but just zip, back-back and delete and it leaves what you want plus your zipfile.

If worried about playing around, just copy everything into a different named folder
and play around there.
Randall

[scri8e]

Related Question?

Does zipping a directory save space?

http://www.wtv-zone.com/scri8e/1glassTine/

Total of all files 108 kb

Zipping from root with the folder.
By checking the folder:

http://www.wtv-zone.com/scri8e/1glasstineNfolder.zip

111 kb

Zipping from inside of the directory by mark all and zipping:

http://www.wtv-zone.com/scri8e/1glassTine/...sstineFiles.zip (http://www.wtv-zone.com/scri8e/1glassTine/1glasstineFiles.zip)

111kb


I guess I am mis-informed? I thought that zipping would compress files more than this?

Or is it based on the larger amount of files zipped the more compressed it is? 3 kb isn't much?

=shrug=

[gnubee]

Zipping is meant for 2 main purposes:
1) compress files that are compressible. Jpg's are already compressed, s zipping them indiviudually may not save a lot of space, but Html or text files should see some reduction in size.

2) package files together, as in Randall's example. This puts the files in one package, There may be some reductin, but mostly the files are all together in one file.

Zipping a directory is more of an example of #2, thus the low file size reduction.