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I'm currently doing a series of benchmark and testing several file compression tools.
While testing Filepack with some of my files, I stumbled on a strange case where Filepack seemingly fails when packing a file, reporting the following error :
I guess I could add a better diagnostic message, but yes, basically if the end result does not compress, there's no point in packing it.
Generally this happens when trying to compress already compressed files, FilePack is not designed in being the best packer, it's made to allow almost real time depacking, so it's really targeted at depacking performance as well as being able to unpack a file over itself with as few lost bytes as possible.