I agree... they're not that big... but what you could do is zip them up after a
few months, ∗all∗ the files that you have uploaded, or maybe even make one bank
from all the single patches that were uploaded... it remains 220kb no matter
how many patches are in the bank.
Other opinions?
Joel
Scott Gibbons wrote:
> >I'm about to lost my freaking mind trying to zip some patches so that
> >I can upload them on to the site. Any suggestions on easiest way to
> >zip an AN file? I'm new to zipping files. Thanks.
>
> After having some nightmarish experiences at work last week with compressed
> files (yeah, you DO run the risk of losing data when you compress files -
> that's what compression does!) I gotta wonder why we're compressing these
> files anyway. They're not that big, so what's the deal? I also wonder about
> using the ZIP protocol since that's a compression designed for Windows. Any
> kind of raw sysex file would be cross-platform.... er, I guess it would
> more accurately be "not platform-specific."
>
> opinions?
>
> - Scott
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