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{ 2005 08 26 }

if only there were a really smart way to solve this problem

Windows file systems are the horrible.

I unzipped a folder with many configuration and source files in it. These tend to be small ascii files–the zip file was around 23.5m. I unzipped it, and these were the results:

70,198 Files; 18,144 Folders
Size: 121 Mb
Size on Disk: 356 Mb.

These files are taking up three times the space they should; an average of 3.3k are wasted per file. What were they thinking?

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