Compressing files via command line on Windows system
I am trying to compress one folder on my local drive, for example: C:\Templates
I am using the following command from the command line (cmd.exe) to perform this operation:
compact /c C:\Templates
But it doesn't work and shows the following message:
1 files within 1 directory were compressed.
0 total bytes of data are stored in 0 bytes.
The compression ratio is 1.0 to 1.
My machine is running Windows 7 64 bit.
Using:
compact /c /s:C:\Templates
The only thing you are missing is the switch /s
in front of the directory name.
Are you sure the directory is not empty? This will give a message in empty directories. Future files placed there will be compressed.
By the way, when using compact.exe it does not work if the cluster size exceeds 4096 bytes. I formatted the disk with a cluster size of 8192 bytes and later found out that NTFS compression did not work with it.