Containerizing .dat files for efficient disk management
When processing .UFDR files and running System Summary, FTK stores some non-containerized data which results in high diskspace usage. The solution below allows users to toggle whether or not this data is containerized by default.
- Open RegEdit.
- Navigate to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\AccessData\Products\Common.
- Right-click on Common.
- Locate CompressNativeStreams.
- Change the value to 1.
- Alternatively, if this key does not exist:
- Click New > DWORD (32-Bit) Value.
- Enter CompressNativeStreams.
- Enter a value of 1.