Dropbox "Compress _file_" option question

[Psurfer]

I have a photo gallery folder (inside the Dropbox "Photos" folder) of about 2 dozen jpgs, totals about 40MB. On my slow DSL it's very slow to load completely; I saw the Compress (folder name) option in the control menu, made a test folder named compressed w/a few images in it, and clicked Compress. I don't know that it actually changed anything. Still slow to load*, Get Info shows the same size.

A file labeled compressed.zip appeared under it, clicking on that generates a copy -"compressed2", exhibiting same* load speed etc as above.

*unless my DSL is so slow that the link to the compressed folder seems slow, but is still faster than before? -admittedly, I just did something else while waiting Many mins for the original 40MB one to load...

edit: I think maybe the "compressed" link loads a little faster, but each image then takes far longer to view full size, than the uncompressed version?

[bazookaman]

jpgs are already compressed so they aren't going to compress much more if any. so you probably would not see a faster upload.

[Chakravartin]

When you compress a file, multiple files or folder into a zip archive using the Finder's "compress" feature, that doesn't delete the original item(s). You end up with both a zip archive and the original in the same folder.

If both the zip archive and the original file/folder are in the Dropbox folder then both will be uploaded to Dropbox's servers and synchronized with your other computers.

If you want to speed up the upload of files to Dropbox's servers then you should compress your file(s) in a separate folder and then drop only the resulting zip file into the Dropbox folder.

[Psurfer]

Yes Chakra, I think it helped to delete all but the orig folder.

[jacaboo]

I use an image processing programme found on the internet . Install it and it becomes a selectable processing option.Then you can compress images of all formats in any program at all, including Adobe Acrobat . Just open an image, select compress ,then you can compress images ,the task will be finished in several seconds. if you haven't found a good choice , you can have a try. best wishes.