Marcus looked at the blinking cursor, then at the file. He finally understood. It wasn't about space. It was about integrity. It was about ensuring that the past didn't crumble.
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"Three gigabytes to nine hundred megabytes," Elias whispered. "We have retained every single file, every permission, every timestamp, every sub-directory structure. We have lost nothing. But we have shed two-thirds of the weight." Marcus looked at the blinking cursor, then at the file