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- From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.)
- Subject: Re: How good is AutoDoubler?
- Message-ID: <aland.715406731@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Keywords: autodoubler
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- References: <1992Aug29.222529.2553@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <Btsx08.MnI@DMI.USherb.CA> <1992Sep01.181941.544@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <xdwyh2c@rpi.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 04:05:31 GMT
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- johnsd2@rs6405.ecs.rpi.edu (Daniel Norman Johnson) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep01.181941.544@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, stu1d46@bmerh255.bnr.ca (Victor Koa) writes:
- >> Only thing is, I recently bought another hard drive, and now I have space to
- >> spare. So I decided I could do without Autodoubler (until I fill the new HD
- >> up :-) ). Unfortunately there is no easy way of weaning my old hard drive off
- >> of Autodoubler. If I remove AD from my system, I have a hard drive full of
- >> Disk Doubler files. Looks like I'll have to uncompress each and every file
- >> one at a time...If I really want to bother.
-
- Nope, just copy everything from the AD-compressed drive to the 'big'
- drive, & it will automatically expand it. Then turn off AD and copy
- it all back. ;)
-
- >Can't you just set your whole hard drive to "do not compress" with the
- >control panel? I think that decompresses the content too... At least I
- >remember doing it on a folder, and then the contents were not compressed.
- >[but maybe it never got around to compressing 'em... hmmmm]
-
- Nope, it doesn't uncompress that way...
-
- -=Alan
-