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does Dropbox compressed photo files???
I'm sending full resolution photo files to clients instead of burning them on a disc, but I want to make sure they are the full resolution. I had a client that had pictures made at Walgreens, and the...
I uploaded a 107.5MB TIFF file to Dropbox using a desktop browser, then downloaded the file. I then compared the file in my download folder to the source file.
Both were exact matches down to the byte: 107,525,5436 bytes.
I then checked for JPG. Also an exact match 9,177,764 bytes.
Then I checked CR2 files (Cannon's proprietary file extension)
Drumroll...both files were 23,921,835 bytes.
If you are using some mobile app to upload your photos...switch to desktop if you care about such things, but blame the right party.
Last I checked, I do not work for Dropbox, nor do I own any stock. If you call someone a liar, you better be able to back it up at least as well as dropbox backs up your files.
@Ira maybe I was not clear in my post. Here is a simple experiment to clarify what I meant: copy any file from your hard drive to a flash drive or an external hard drive and the size of the file will almost certainly be different, depending on how the devices are partitioned etc along these lines http://www.howtogeek.com/180369/why-is-there-a-big-difference-between-size-and-size-on-disk/
I am not entirely sure if this applies to DB folders/files, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did. My "belief" is that irrespective of the reported file size, the underlying res does not change, as demonstrated very clearly by @henry w. above
or it may all be the result of Lepton:
