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Comment by david422

7 months ago

> He found out later (after a defrag) that the "compressor" was just hiding data in unused disk sectors and storing references to them

So you could access the files until you wrote more data to disk?

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thehappypm  7 months ago

Strange to think that is approach would actually work pretty damn well for most people because most people aren’t using therefore hard drive space

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