Why the .uasset textures are so big compared to the origianl .jpg textures?

[nilamo]

@mandaxyz

I care about project size because I always make many copy backups of my project if something goes wrong like not undo-able things, if the project is so big then the copies take many times. And BACKUPS are IMPORTANT for me. Suppose that my project is so big as 5 GB then the copy as backup will take forever because there are many of them.

Source control would do that for you, and also provide tools for comparing changes in case something breaks. Github/gitlab are pretty good.