seems it does compress it just sets a min size (sounds really dumb for a compression app to do)
from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2065402#4 : here file-roller is 'compressing' but will never go below 10.2kB So - a folder with a number of small files 43.6kB goes to 10.6kB 34kB goes to 10.2kB 15kB goes to 10.2kB 1.5kB goes UP to 10.2kB -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1064117 Title: Extremly poor compression for .tar.bz2 Status in “file-roller” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I am running Xubuntu 12.10 beta 64bit i created a archive for a folder the contents are ~1.5kb the archive is over 10kb i compressed the same files on my Ubuntu 10.04 install and the archive is 851 bytes archive was created from the create archive option in the right click menu in the file browser (thunar) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/1064117/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
