Questions tagged [archiving]
Archiving can refer to the process of archiving files or the process of archiving data. File archiving is combining one or multiple files into one file or container. Data archiving is the process of relocating data that is no longer actively used to a separate storage area for long-term retention.
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Unpacking RAR archive, but one of the parts (segments) in UPPER CASE filename and extension, any ideas about workaround for this?
For some reason, example.mpg turned into several RARs, part01.rar part02.rar etc, all the way to part22.rar, but ONE of the RARs, is this PART07.RAR (in capital letters), so the WinRar or 7-zip cannot ...
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Extracting multiple archives with WinRAR where some are missing parts
I have a folder with a few thousand rar and zip files. Some are separated into multiple parts and others are not. My goal is to extract all of the files. The files are large and I expect this may take ...
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What is "Chrome File Utilities" process and why does it slow down my system?
It is a process spawned by Chrome.
I was compressing a folder on my drive unrelated to anything chrome has to do with and it was sucking up my CPU and making winrar unresponsive?
What does that ...
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How can I create a shortcut in Total Commander to unpack the selected archive into the current directory?
Total Commander can unpack all kinds of archives. This is very convenient, but by default it unpacks to the target pane.
The "Unpack Specific Files..." dialog does allow one to specify the ...
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How to split a big folder into multiple standalone archives using RAR or 7-Zip console?
Example: I want to add a 100 GB folder to archives of 10 GB each using RAR or 7-Zip console on Windows. But each archive must be independent/standalone and able to extract without the other archives. ...
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WinRAR - Span Archives instead of splitting (Internet Archive)
I'm having a small issue trying to back up data to the Internet Archive.
I have tried to used 7zip to split files into certain sizes (such as 7G or 25G) to upload better, but IA won't accept ...
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Split zip archives using WinRar vs 7-Zip
I created a split zip archive using WinRar and 7-Zip.
WinRar creates
archive.zip
archive.z01
archive.z02
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7-Zip creates
archive.zip.001
archive.zip.002
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With Total Commander I could enter(CTRL+...
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atool just hangs with `xargs -- zip -r test.csv` on Mac?
First off, I couldn't seem to find why the -- two dashes to xargs, but here's what I'm getting:
$ atool -E -a --format=zip words.csv
xargs -- zip -r words.csv
[...hangs...]
The docs are at https://...
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Find strange TAR archive format
I have some file that can be extracted with tar:
tar -tvf attachment.tar
But when I test it with file I have this result:
attachment.tar: uuencoded or xxencoded text, ASCII text, with CRLF line ...
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Auto sort photos and videos in folders based on date
I am using windows. I have a lot of photos and videos that I want to be sorted in the following structure based on the date of the photo and video taken.
year>month>photo.jpg
So an example ...
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Use 7zip to create archives for each subfolder and file
Under Windows environment, I have a folder contains both subfolders and isolated files. The structure is like this:
D:\main_folder
subfolder1
subfolder2
file1.dat
I want to use 7zip to make the ...
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Best way to compress a directory tree containing archives and files selectively extracted from them? [closed]
I have a file structure that looks something like this:
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└── base/
├── archives/
│ ├── foo.zip
│ ├── bar.rar
│ └── baz.7z
├── unzipped-1/
│ └── complex subdir tree/
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How to download only bytes needed from stackexchange archive 7z files?
I am working on a doomsday version of stackexchange completely offline using the dump files in archive.org, some of the site files are rather large where it wouldn't make too much sense to download ...
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absolute fastest way to zip (not compress) larger files in 7zip?
I need to know the absolute fastest way to zip (not compress) larger files in 7-Zip.
By large files I mean 1Tb or so, this will be done often (multiple times per day).
I tried WinZip because it has ...
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What are these pax tarball characteristics and comments?
I created a pax archive with GNU tar 1.34 under Debian 11 and, upon viewing the tarball in 7-Zip (23.01) File Manager on Windows 10, I noticed these fields on the archived items:
Name
Characteristics
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