Saving Compressed?

Deke

When I save a scene it gives me the option of compressing the file. What is happening when a Daz scene is compressed vs not compressed? The file  size is much smaller, but what am I giving up?

felis

It is compressed like you can compress any other file, if you ever have zipped a file.

You can uncompress it with standard applications for compressing/uncompressing.

So if you want to read a compressed file, just first uncompress, and you can then read with a text editor.

Deke

Thanks. I was wondering if this has something to do with how the daz file ingests the various elements of a scene. Does it have to do with those linkages to models, textures, etc. 

felis

A compressed and an uncompressed scene has the same content.

Compression is just to save (disk) space.

Richard Haseltine

People have lost scenes when a disc glitch has misplaced a byte, making the compression unreadable from that point on. Saving uncompressed avoids that risk, it would just be one bad character if it happened and that would be fairly easy to fx well enough to open the scene.