top of page

LITIGATION SUPPORT TIP OF THE NIGHT

The views expressed in this blog are those of the owner and do not reflect the views or opinions of the owner’s employer. All content provided on this blog is for informational purposes only. The owner of this blog makes no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any information on this site or found by following any link on this site. The owner will not be liable for any errors or omissions in this information nor for the availability of this information. The owner will not be liable for any losses, injuries, or damages from the display or use of this information. This policy is subject to change at any time. The owner is not an attorney, and nothing posted on this site should be construed as legal advice. Litigation Support Tip of the Night does not provide confirmation that any e-discovery technique or conduct is compliant with legal, regulatory, contractual or ethical requirements.

See my post on Running Regex Searches With a Grep Utility on the ILTA litigation support blog.

New tips for paralegals and litigation support profesionals are posted to this site each week. Click on the blog headings for better detail.

See How-To Videos on my YouTube channel.

WinZip v. StuffIt

Sean O'Shea
Jul 26, 2015
1 min read

WinZip is well known as the standard file compression program. But for a long time it has had a less known competitor which may be superior. Consider downloading StuffIt:

http://stuffit-deluxe.en.softonic.com/download

StuffIt gives you the option to compress files in the .zip format, and if you do there will not be much difference from compressed files created with WinZip. However if you select .sitx format you should see a noticeable improvement in the compression size. I just tested compressing 27 files (a mixture of Adobe PDF, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word files) totaling 70.1 MB in WinZip and StuffIt. The zip file created by WinZip came to 58.4 MB. The .sitx file created by StuffIt was 52.8 MB. Not an insignificant difference.