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Moving and Copying Compressed Files and Folders in Windows XP

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

When you move and copy compressed files and folders in Microsoft Windows, those files and

Folders are affected in the following manner:

 

  • When you move files and folders within the same NTFS volume, the compression attribute remains the same in the new location. For example, if files were compressed in the original location, they will remain compressed in the new location, even if the new parent folder is not compressed.

 

  • When you copy files and folders in windows xp within the same volume, the ompression attribute is lost, and the files will take on the compression attribute of the new parent folder.

 

  • When you move or copy files and folders to a different volume in Microsoft windows, the files and folders take on the compression attribute of the new parent folder.

 

  • When you move or copy files or folders to a volume that is formatted with FAT or FAT32, compression is lost because these file systems do not support compression.
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