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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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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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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 compression options does 7Zip use when you add files with a drag-drop?
When you create an archive with 7Zip, you get a dialog showing you a bunch of compression options. However when you drag-drop some files into an already-open archive in a 7Zip window, you just get a &...
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Increase robustness of 7z LZMA archiving?
I create backups of several PHP projects like Wordpress etc, which contain a huge amount of small files. Hence I zip them into one archive to make transfering and checking the file easier / faster. I ...
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Copy entire drive in use per batches
I need to copy entire network drive (approx. 1TB) that is constantly in use to a remote location but in that remote location, no file can be larger than 1.3GB.
How can I achieve this?
I cannot first ...
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Zip encryption, individual files or the whole directory/file tree of the zip archive
As an example fuse-zip shows a directory list, when executed on an encrypted zip archive. The individual files then cannot be read or written to. But the directory tree and the individual file names ...
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Archive binary has reversed hex signature
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This is a repost of my StackOverflow question which was incorrectly asked, as it does not relate to programming.
I'm playing Bandit on OverTheWire, and level thirteen requires unzipping ...
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Varying archive size under multi-threaded compression
When using 7-zip with 7z u -uq0 -ssw -mx9 -stl files.7z files (update-synchronize ultra-compression) I think I've seen a slight random size difference of the same archive triggering my backing-up ...
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How can I compress a large collection of images together (for backup purposes) as densely as possible?
I have a fairly large (by personal use standards) collection of images. This is roughly in the range of 150k files of a total size of 200GB. It is by and large PNG and JPG files, each making up about ...
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How can we unlock a 7z archive (w/ password) without extracting it?
The question in the title. I am aware;
7z x blah.7z -p'mysecretpassword'
exists, but I wish to only unlock the archive - allowing my Python script to access it. Not extract it.
The reason I can't ...
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Compress a folder with internal complex folders tree and UTF-8 mixed languages files and formats for archive
I have a cloud folder on my hard-drive which I want to archive, in-order to do so I would like to compress it using best of choice compressor for that task :
Complex sub-tree of internal folders with ...
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What types of compressed archives does Microsoft Windows understand by default (Windows 10)
What file formats of compressed archives does Windows 10 natively know how to work with on fresh install?
There are many file formats for compressed archives. To name a few:
.tar.gz
.zip
.rar
.7z
etc
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Error when tar a compressed file
I try to install krona tools, so I downloaded its archive first as follows:
curl -LOk https://github.com/marbl/Krona/releases/download/v2.7/KronaTools-2.8.tar
then
#untar
tar -xvf KronaTools-2.8.tar
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7-Zip Warning: "There are some data after the end of the payload data"
I just got this error message while trying to extract a rar archive that is split in several parts using 7-Zip:
1 C:\Users\Admin\Downloads\FileName.part1.rar
Warnings:
There are some data ...
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