Okay, for this task, I decided to shrink the size of a folder on my computer.

First, I made note of the size of the folder "DHE." As of the beginning of this task, it is 272.5MB with 1035 items. I would definitely say that's a big folder, in fact, too big for me to transport to another computer using my 256MB flash drive.

Let's see if we can't solve this with the help of a file compression app. I broke out my file roller app, and tried to compress the folder using .7z format. That didn't work, so I went with .zip instead.

Using the .zip compression, I managed to reduce the size down to 265.0MB. Not quite what I was going for.

File compression ain't gonna work. It's not going to shrink it down enough. So let's go with a different approach.

Just plain getting rid of stuff. Starting with that ugly .zip archive.

After that was done, I systematically went through, and trashed what I didn't like in that folder.

This left me with a folder that was 260.1MB for 979 items. Still not quite what I was aiming for, but lower than what I had when I did the file compression.

The two methods combined would more than likely deal me even more success, but I believe I have already sufficiently accomplished this task. :3