In today's world, file archiving is becoming increasingly important. Many sooner or later face the need to reduce the amount of information transmitted. In the process of working with a computer, any user begins to think about compressing folders and files. When they get into the archive, they lose a considerable part of their volume, which makes it easy to work by writing them to removable media or transferring them to various networks. Archiving of documents is carried out due to the fact that a certain set of characters is replaced by one or two characters. Accordingly, during unpacking, reverse substitution occurs.
Thus, file archiving is a process of reducing the size in bytes. The user does not notice the action taking place, working with the archive as with a regular folder. However, in fact, the difference in volume can be very decent, which is especially felt against the background of texts and tables. They can be reduced tens of times, having lost the bulk of the volume. However, individual files can hardly be compressed, since they have already undergone similar processing. This, of course, primarily applies to certain formats of music and images.
The most widely used file archiving was when sending over local and global networks in order to reduce the load on them. Transfer in this case is much faster. In addition, email has restrictions on the amount of information transmitted, so data compression can be very useful here. Itβs quite convenient that a large number of files can be combined into one archive, which will be very simple to work with. The whole process is controlled by one program for
archiving data. With its help, it is possible to conduct compression without any skills.
Thanks to the program, file archiving is carried out literally in a matter of seconds, but first, it must be found and installed on the computer. Although today, many operating systems contain an archiver that allows you to pack and unpack some types of data. Next, files to be archived are selected. By right-clicking on the selected files, you can quickly add them to the archive. At the last stage, the program asks for the name and location of the compressed files. Unpacking is performed by two clicks of the left mouse button on the archive.
Sometimes it may be necessary to compress files using individual parameters. Then these applications can provide a set of different settings. For example, the user can specify the compression ratio, create a password for the archive, format, and the like. Among such functions there is the possibility of creating self-extracting and multi-volume archives. The first of them have a special module, thanks to which it is possible to retrieve data by the usual launch of the application. In this case, the archiver on the local computer is not required. As for multi-volume archives, they allow you to split a compressed file into separate parts.