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Can Double Zipping Cause Problems?

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Mar 15, 202662761 views
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I have a directory that I have been storing a ton of files in. Among the 10ish types of files there are also s of other directories. In my personal experience I vaguely remember issues when trying to zip zips (ha zip zips). Will compressing an already compressed file cause immediate problems, or po…

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Fix for: Can Double Zipping Cause Problems?

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Zipping zips is fine. If there is a problem, that would be a bug in the compression software :). You will probably not get any further compression for those files though unless you're using a higher level of compression.

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