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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Anti-Spam Code: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by hofmaale[/i] [br]Hi there, instead of reviving an old thread, I rather create a new one; the last time this topic was discussed about seems to be in 2003 (at least I didn't find a newer thread with a quick search, I bet there are more: http://www.originlab.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2746) Wouldn't it be time to introduce a [b]compressed Project File Option[/b]? Suggestion: don't reinvent the wheel, but create a .OPZ File version, that uses an established compressed file format (like ZIP or 7Z) as a container. That way: - Project file size can sometimes be reduced to less than 1% (using recent LZMA) - Backwards-compatibility would be honored up to some extent (just rename the file and decompress it) - ease up sharing & collaborating, as smaller files are uploaded faster I often have to import a large amount of data which can easily result in files >1GB; using 7z these files shrink to 50 Megs (and recently I compressed a 50MB .OPJ to about 700KB 7z) Or did I miss something? Is this feature perhaps already present and I just didn't see it? Different possibility: how far can the process of saving projects be controlled by OriginC? Is it possible to "add on" this feature? Greetings Alexander Origin Ver. and Service Release (Select Help-->About Origin): 9.1 Operating System: Win 7 [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.