Is it safe to compress my Windows 7 %USERPROFILE%\AppData folder?
- by Kev
Having just read Scott Hanselman's latest blog entry, Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows 7, he suggests turning on NTFS compression which I already do for a number of less travelled folders that contain static files such as downloads or images.
However I am wondering if it's wise to turn on NTFS compression for the whole of my %USERPROFILE%\AppData folder?
My system drive is a 128 GB SSD residing in a Dell Precision T5400 3Ghz Quad Core Xeon workstation so I ought not to notice the extra cycles used to compress and decompress files on their way to and from the disk.
However would there be any good reasons not to do this?
In fact could I safely compress the whole of my %USERPROFILE% folder?