i have downloaded winzip i added 2 files to a zip file thinking it would compress them but the file became a zip file the same size as the origional 2 files what happened to the compression
try winrar but if the files were mp3's or some other type of highly compressed file not much more compression is possible
You'll find zipping up stuff like .mp3's and .avi's don't compress down much and is because in the file itself there is not too much repeated data that repeats. In example, a 10 page text document has lots of repeating characters (eventually) and one character is taken as the 'master' of sorts and the rest marked so under compression repeating characters removed and this is why the file 'compresses.' On uncompress, they're replaced back (I forget all the actual technical explanation, been many years) but this is the general idea. The same thing will happen if you compress a single .exe file- you won't get a whole lot of compression on it. When you see stuff like this, this is why and would be with .mp3's or .avi videos, etc, and there is nothing 'wrong' but things are working as they should. This is also why people don't much bother zipping up their .mp3 or computer video files for storage, but just burn them straight out instead- no gain to bother to .zip sc
