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Compressing small files increases archive size

Open d-divita opened this issue 8 months ago • 4 comments

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Describe your issue: When compressing small files, for example a bunch of small .txt files, the resulting archive is bigger than the files it contains.

Ways to Reproduce the issue (optional):

  1. Create a .txt file with a few words in it (it will be some bytes in size)
  2. Compress it via QArchive
  3. The resulting archive is about 10KB (tested with ZipFormat, SevenZipFormat, TarFormat)

d-divita avatar May 30 '24 14:05 d-divita