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- From: Jonathan A. Duke <jonathan@hermes.bc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Golden Triangle Times Two
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.140207.29472@bcnews.bc.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:02:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.144959.8760@aston.ac.uk> Phil J Barrett,
- barretpj@cs.aston.ac.uk writes:
- >I spotted this during the (very slick) demo at Apple Expo UK last week.
- Even
- >with an empty SyQuest, the Finder said '8.4M used' (or some similar
- amount).
- >It turns out that TimesTwo reports as 'used' any space which isn't
- available
- >due to files not compressing to half size. So on a "full" '80M' (40Mx2)
- disk,
- >there may be 80M of your data, or 60M data and 20M used by a TimesTwo
- invisible
- >file, or even (if all your data is StuffIt files) 35M of your files and a
- >45M invisible file. In the opposite case, you could have 80M of TIFF
- files
- >and actually have 30M free on the real disk - which you can't get at.
-
- Actually, you can have more than 80M of stuff on the disk. It TT can
- compress greater than 2:1, it will, and it will show the free space
- correctly.
-
- Currently I'm running at about 1.5 to 1.7 to 1, which is average given
- that I have a lot of Type 1 fonts on my disk (about 20M).
-
- Jon
-