# How to unset default 'compress' option during save

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-unset-default-compress-option-during-save/4488>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** file-export\
**Created:** [October 22, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-unset-default-compress-option-during-save/4488 "2018-10-22T15:37:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-unset-default-compress-option-during-save/4488/7 "2018-10-22T20:48:41Z")

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Follow up on pigz, there’s a [github repo](https://github.com/madler/pigz) and the author seems [quite legit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Adler). But there’s no obvious windows support so probably a cmakeification effort would be needed.

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