Quote:
Originally Posted by lexone
The problem with rar is that you have to download them to your computer.....not a great idea for everyone. I prefer to open and view the files not to download them. Then how often have you read " the hottest ever "only to find out it is not your cup of tea and you have just spent an hour downloading a ton of files that you don't want. Not being real computer savy myself I'm still not sure that any rar files that i've downloaded in the past have been deleted or not from my computer. So to be safe I just swear and skip over rar. They are a pain in that ass and I wish they were not allowed on OCC
|
I think you lack of knowledge is your problem here.
When you open a file/picuture/video file, you still download it to your computer, and it is also stored on it too. That is normally temporary, but only if you are savvy enough to delete your temporary files. If you download a RAR file you should have selected where you downloaded it to, so you know clearly where it is and if you delete it.
I will ask you if you want to try a simple challenge; I have uploaded over 1100 pics of one woman, I've also posted some example pics to show examples of the contents and then the files compressed in RAR Files. Now you are telling me that you would prefer to download 1100 individual files than around 5 RAR or ZIP files? an hour to download 1100 individual pics, I think you would give up. It shouldn't take more than 20 minutes, normally much less to get all the RAR files and with very little effort. A decent program to handle them as already suggested here and it is so easy. It is no different to having got used to various video codecs/container formats like avi/mp4/flv and the like. You seem to find jpeg no problem, but that is also new when compared to bmp/gif which were the formats of choice and jpeg was also resisted by a lot of users because it meant a change.
I will post some links to help you out if you would like some more help as it is a shame that you are missing so much available on OCC. you have a simple choice; do you grab this chance and gain the knowledge or you can just carry-on swearing at them in ignorance. That decision I leave up to you.