agent817
Fry's dog Seymour
Doesn't Know Whose Ring It Is
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Post by agent817 on Mar 23, 2023 17:06:57 GMT -5
So recently I backed up some pictures from Google Photos onto a Zip folder. I also put them on my portable hard drive. I'm trying to clean out Google Photos because I am rounding low on space and I am iffy about paying a service for extra space.
When I saw that it said "extract," I wondered what that meant. Can anybody tell me?
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Mar 23, 2023 17:19:03 GMT -5
It means the pictures will be copied and moved to an 'open' folder.
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Dr. T is an alien
Patti Mayonnaise
Knows when to hold them, knows when to fold them
I've been found out!
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Mar 24, 2023 11:44:10 GMT -5
Zipping files is a way to make the data more easily transferable. It's difficult to, for example, email a large amount of pictures, especially if they are high quality pictures. If you zip them in a compressed folder, however, the data is much more easily transferred. You then need to unzip the files to revert them to a format that you can make use of.
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