compression not working

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compression not working

Post by bert » Mon Jul 19, 2010 3:25 am

when i do compression for image file its says it wil be 2,7gb
it turned out it is in fact 5,2gb on disc!

what is happening?
i did mark image compression rate for smallest imagesize!

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Re: compression not working

Post by Alt » Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:23 am

R-Drive Image gives only an estimate of the image file size before image creation starts, the real one can be different.
In fact, it's very hard to give an exact value for it, too many things can affect it.
What is the original object size? And what data is on it?

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