Andrew McLaren

> I noticed that the files in my E: drive are in blue font... What is the
> significance of the blue font?

Hi Mac,

This indicates the files are compressed using NTFS Compression.

You can compress indiviual files, or you can specify Compression for a whole
volume in Disk Manager (under Admin Tools). If everything on the drive is
compressed, it probabaly means the whole Volume is compressed. That's okay -
just means you get more disk space. NTFS compression is very efficient, in
the performance dimension - there's very little overhead in compressing and
uncompressing the files (and in fact, some disk IO is even faster, because
there's less to read from disk). Compressed files can be used like any other
file, you just open them in an application etc, no special handling is
required.

Hope it helps,
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Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au