Making It Fit on Your 64GB SDCX

64GB is a lot of space. In fact your average laptop computer has around 100-200GB of storage so what they are looking with a 64GB SDCX at is a huge chunk of what you would normally get on of those but on a tool the size of your fingernail. However despite this fact they still tend to find ways to fill that space up - & it is as though the more space they have the more space they need. It is like money in that sense - the more you have the more you spend & people tend to say for this reason that they 'live within our means'.

Thus, although it is such a huge card, they often find ourselves disappointed that they cannot fit that additional song on it, or that additional film for our holiday. Or can they? Actually in lots of cases there is methods to make things fit that they are not aware of or don't think of. Here they will look at how this can work.

For program for example you will usually copy the whole listing across. In case you have a game called 'Ultimate Fun Monkey Game' then you'll probably copy over 'UltimateFunMonkey' the folder as it is. This will then copy all the sub-directories & folders that that game needs to run. The query is though - does it in fact need them? In lots of cases these folders will include things that you actually need not run the game & that might include instruction manuals, screen captures, images, commercials for other games or even demos for whole other games. You need to be cautious here to copy across everything the game needs to run but in case you use your intuition then the folder titles can let you know when something is unnecessary such as 'Demos' or 'Extras'.

When it comes to individual files which they more often need to copy onto our 64GB SDCX such as videos & music, then sadly they often don't have this luxury. However in this case they do have the choice to compress the files & thereby make them smaller. For those who are not familiar with the term, compressing a file or folder means encrypting it in such a way that it makes the file smaller. For example then in case you had a picture then the file would consist of lots symbols that communicate to the file-viewing program the coordinates & colors of the individual pixels. When you compress this folder that data is condensed in a kind of abbreviated code so that single digits refer to whole strings of earlier symbols. This way your devices can then decode that encryption to generate the picture, but the file will consist of less data & so be smaller. Why don't they always encrypt files this way? Well it makes them slower as the computer has to work harder to understand them, & lots of devices such as cameras cannot view them until you decompress them again.

Finally you can think about actually changing the file to make it smaller. For example in case you have a picture in paint then you can crop it to be half the width & height, or you can save it as a gif file with less color data.