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Can I change something in the PC's system for extracting larger files than the available space on system HDD C:, so it checks within HDD M:?
I hope you understood me. For example I have a ton of pics and videos in my mobile and everything zipped 2gether is around 12 gb and I have free space on my system HDD (C:) around 6 gb and when I wanna extract it to copy it to the other HDD (M:) I can't copy it at all. I really don't wanna clean all the time the HDD (C:).
Tnx in advance. Peace.
@Richard : I think that you didn't fully understand me. I'm not keeping anything else on C: beside the operating system and some updates. When extracting larger zipped or rared files if C: has less space than the zipped/rared file it says "that it doesn't have more space to execute the file", therefore I didn't know about the TEMP and TMP files that are stored on C: after every executable file, the video I posted down below explains everything.
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- RichardLv 73 years ago
Assuming M: has sufficient capacity to hold the files when they are extracted as well as the zipped files, then copy or move the zipped files to M:
In File Explorer, double click on the zipped file, which should open a new window with all the files names listed in it. Select the files you want, and copy them to another folder.
Normally there is little point in zipping music files (MP3 or WMA), video files (MPG, MOV, MP4, etc) or picture files (JPG, TIF, etc). These files are already compressed and zipping them might not save any space. Depending on the original compression, the ZIP file might actually be larger than the original.
You might be able to do the first part where you open the extra window containing all the file names in C:, and copy from there into a folder on M:. I suspect the file is not unzipped until it is being copied somewhere else.
One question for you. Why are you storing media files (even zipped media files) on C:? It is much better to keep C: just for the operating system and the application executables, and use other drives to hold data. That way, you can back up the operating system as a drive image for complete OS recovery and use normal data copying to back up all your media and personal files.
I hope this helps.
