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NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:44:22 -0500
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Subject: Re: ATTN: Magnum - which Lolas to keep??
From: Slick <Slick@Slick.com>
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Piper <here@there.com> wrote in news:part1of1.1.UI27tvP7hmYogQ@ue.ph:
> Hi Magnum,
>
> Thanks to Fred's post we are getting a fairly complete set of Lola.
> The problem is to decide which files are likely to be the originals..
> if you care. :-)
>
> I have always decided in favor of the larger of a pair of dupes.
>
> To test the files that Fred posted versus the files that I had before
> I did the following:
> 1) renamed all files to the current naming convention.. eg.
> lo99x123.jpg or lop99x123
> 2) I made CSV files of Fred's 1-99 set and my previous 1-99 set
> 3) I then loaded both CSV files into a spreadsheet (I use OpenOffice)
> and compared each file for file size
>
> Fred's files win in the first 44 sets then it gets to be a bit of a
> mess...
>
> I am going to make a third set (1-99) of all the largest files and
> make a CSV of that. I'll post that for you when it's done.
>
> Do you want to see my spreadsheet? I can make it an Excel sheet if
> that's better for you.
>
> cheers
> Piper
>
If it was me, I would just keep FF's and trash the rest. If his are a
little smaller, (I could be wrong but) I BELIEVE he has applied lossless
transformation and stripped away the hidden markers from the files (like
any smart poster would do). You shouldn't notice any difference, they
aren't downsized.
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