File Names w/ Blue Text

[ArcticPenguin]

I recently transfered all my media files ( movies and music) from 2 - 250Gb drives to one 750Gb drive to have a main media drive for a computer im putting together (as the older drives are IDE and the new one is Sata)

however when doing a disk clean up and defrag alot of the files have changed from regular black text to blue text...im wondering if those fragmented/corrupt files or what? or im just assuming its that they are the compressed files Disk Cleanup compressed
i have plenty of copies of my files but its strange that alot of them have this after doing a disk clean up of compressed files.


thanks!

[jiggamanjb]

Yes, they are compressed files. I would suggest not compressing them. It's slower access and you got the space to keep them full size anyway.

[ArcticPenguin]

ahh ok.
Perhaps I could just erase the ones on the drive now and just transfer them back over.


thanks

[jiggamanjb]

To uncompress the whole drive:

Open the command prompt.

Assuming your HD is C, go to the root of C by typing in: cd c:\

Note the space between cd and c

Hit Enter.

At the C:\> prompt, type in: compact /u /s /i

Note the spaces between compact and each switch.

Hit Enter again and let it run to completion, should only take a few minutes.

This command uncompresses all system folders (the /u switch), subfolders (the /s
switch), and ignores any errors (the /i switch) so that the process won't halt if
it encounters any.

[ArcticPenguin]

thanks for the info the drive itself is a files only drive and drive letter E; since its not internal or contain any system folders i tried it with that method but wasnt sure how to do it for a non-C drive.


anyway to do it that way aswell?

thanks!

[Omsion]

Just navigate the cmd prompt to the drive that needs working :D

C:\>
C:\>E:
E:\>compact /u /s /i

[ArcticPenguin]

perfect thanks!

[Niku-Sama]

i always for get to ask, how can i keep it from compressing the files?

[smokie mcpott]

i always for get to ask, how can i keep it from compressing the files?

if you run disk cleanup, dont check mark the box that says compress old files

[Niku-Sama]

...i for some reason always thought they got rid of the old files.
i guess i never paid any real attention to it