by heimaki (Posted Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:35 am)
a ZIP will be fragmented too, and cluster size on modern files systems are that small, it' not worth bothering at all (NTFS has 4kb as standard even on 4TB drives).
seriously, who uses BMP or TGA these days? why would i use uncompressed PNG or TIFF?
and every time you open an image in your archive it has to be unpacked into a temp directory. again and again and again.
but hey, if the devs gonna implement it in xnview, i don't mind, but apparently they aren't too keen on doing it.
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For example, someone with a large collection of images may want to consolidate images into a ZIP/RAR file to help mitigate file fragmentation across the drive, and/or to reduce wasted cluster space on a given filesystem.
a ZIP will be fragmented too, and cluster size on modern files systems are that small, it' not worth bothering at all (NTFS has 4kb as standard even on 4TB drives).
There are a number of file formats that can be saved without compression, or that do not support compression, or need to remain uncompressed for compatibility with various other programs. BMP, uncompressed TIFF, uncompressed PNG, TGA, just to name a few.
seriously, who uses BMP or TGA these days? why would i use uncompressed PNG or TIFF?
and every time you open an image in your archive it has to be unpacked into a temp directory. again and again and again.
but hey, if the devs gonna implement it in xnview, i don't mind, but apparently they aren't too keen on doing it.
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