Re: Make a working copy from an export

Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>>> You can get laptop-sized USB-powered external drives all the way up to
>>> 500Gb these days so portability isn't a huge problem. The quick-fix
>>> here might be to simply zip or tar -z the working copy if that will make
>>> it fit, though.
>
> Since the data is his music library, this is likely mp3 or m4a files
> which are already compressed. Zip won't be able to compress them any
> further.

Are any of the common compression techniques good enough to notice that
you have 2 copies of everything? Zip wouldn't because it handles each
one separately.

-- 
    Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
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