Why are some file names especially in Excel sometimes coloured blue and somtimes coloured black?
Encrypted or compressed files, Lona?
No, Rik. These files are ordinary excel files.
Mmm. Encrypted go green, compressed blue. Are they files you created or ones sent to you, if the latter, the sender has compressed them.
My hubby does accounts for a small firm and saves each file to a folder. What's bugging him is some save as black and some as blue. He wouldn't know how to compress a file.
I have checked his files and wondered if it something to do with size but they are all basically 91kb
Well, they definitely go blue on my machine if I compress them. Right-click on a blue file, select properties and have a look at what the advanced button reveals.
I wonder if the file extension is different?
Such as, Steve?
Quote from: Rik on Apr 04, 2009, 18:37:50
Well, they definitely go blue on my machine if I compress them. Right-click on a blue file, select properties and have a look at what the advanced button reveals.
You are spot on Rik. He says to tell you he didn't know he was that clever. I got him to check the black files, advanced and they are not compressed but the blue ones were. He doesn't manually compress them so I guess excel does it to save space.
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NP. I had to check myself. :)
Afaik, Windows does it to some files automatically, but you only see them if you have it set that way. To stop Windows showing them:
My Computer > Tools > Folder Options > View, then untick "Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color".
You can still remember then, Seb? ;D
Any idea when it chooses to compress, eg low disk space?
I would have thought the things I know from Windows are drilled into my brain. :P
As far as I can remember, it's something the user has to do - in the file or folder properties, you can choose to compress to save space.
That's what I thought, and it's my experience, so I'm not sure how Lona's husband ended up with compressed files.
Does disk cleanup or some utility like that give you the option to compress old files?
No idea, tbh, Seb.
I've been looking through his pc and there are lots of files that are blue.
The only thing I can think of is, sometimes outlook express will throw up a message asking to compress files to save space. Perhaps windows compresses other files at the same time.
It's possible, Lona, how much free space is there on the disk?
Quote from: Rik on Apr 05, 2009, 15:35:31
It's possible, Lona, how much free space is there on the disk?
95gig on C drive and 93gig on the D drive so plenty room
I really can't explain it, then. I have no compressed files on my machines unless I've chosen to do so manually.
It could be Ccleaner which might be set to compress old files, I must have a look.
I keep reading this thread title as FLIES in my machine! ;D
Wait a couple of months. ;D
Quote from: Simon on Apr 05, 2009, 16:48:17
I keep reading this thread title as FLIES in my machine! ;D
Blueflies or Blackflies :blush: Easy to compress if you can swat them
Is Windows' Disk Cleanup ever run on the machine with the compressed files, and if so is the "Compress old files" box ticked? That may explain why some are compressed.
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Good thought. :thumb:
That's what I was picturing. :)