dale <dale_s@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a program that "converts" files to .dmg format
>
> Great, I thought, but checking the size of the 2 files (non-.dmg, the
the
> converted .dmg file) , the .dmg file size is a bigger.
>
> I thought it would be smaller?
>
> I have a music folder with a size of 69.9
>
> When I changed to .dmg it is 71.3
>
> Can someone plz explain this , I am a bit new to .dmg files , but I
thought
> I would change some music files into them
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> D
Hi Dale,
..dmg files are disk image files. Simply converting a file to a .dmg will
increase it's size as you are adding all the extra overhead of a disk
catalog to the file.
The files that are distributed in .dmg format via the web are normally
done that way to keep multiple files together.
To reduce the size of the .dmg files they are normally compressed with
something like gzip.
If you are simply trying to reduce the size of individual files or
folders you could compress them individually without adding the overhead
of a disk image. Of course, unless the application you use the files
with can decompress them on the fly, the space saved is probably not
worth the effort involved as you would need to decompress them every
time you wanted to use them.
Regards,
Anthony.
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