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Very High Compression with WinRar

Jan 20, 2009 10:40AM PST

can u tell me how to compress very high (like 5gb to 5mb)using winrar.

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Jan 20, 2009 10:43AM PST

i want to compress game.

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In short, you cannot...
Jan 20, 2009 11:11AM PST

To use an analogy, you can only make your car fit in your duffel bag if your car is nothing but a frame. There are limits to how much you can compress a file, and your proposal of 5GB game into 5MB fits into the realm of impossible.

John

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research and get back
Dec 13, 2011 11:10AM PST

the guy would hav not asked the question if he did not come across such a file. I have a brain trainer kit which is only 35MB and extracts two .iso files up 3GB. So, instead of saying its not possible, research further for how this is done! I am still researching!

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Re: compression
Jan 1, 2012 2:39AM PST

The question was how to do it with winrar. The answer was that it wasn't possible.
The question was not how to do it using custom coding.

Kees

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I have such files.
Jan 1, 2012 2:44AM PST

When I upgraded my pad there was a file that was very small and ballooned to many GB. But the reason for that is very well known. No mystery and no reason to think you could get such compression on a game.

But you will read new to computing folk think it applies. More time is needed for them to catch up.
Bob