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You cannot always reduce the a compressed file to 50% of the original file. To better explain this, I will explain the basics of how file compression works. A compresser (Ie. WinZip) will looks for longs strings of data that are used often and will replace them with a shorter string of data and make a type of key to use with it. If there is not a lot of long strings of data that are the same, it cannot compress it as much.

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