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Where does the process occur when zipping a file on a network mapped drive

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Mar 15, 20269118 views
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I want to copy a number of large files that will compress well from a mapped drive to my local hard drive. Will zipping the files make the overall processing time shorter? What I am thinking is, can the zip program zip the files on the mapped drive or does it need to pull the files to memory (that …

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Any program that creates a ZIP file is basically reads some files and writes out a ZIP file. So, if you're zipping files that are located on a remote computer, these files will have to be read over the network, uncompressed. The ZIP program will wri…

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