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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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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Can I password protect new files added to an archived 7zip file? When I add news files to an archive, they're not password protected
Currently I have a 7-zip archive that I made full of videos and pictures that are password protected. Now, I have more videos and pictures that I want to put in the archive, however when I do, they're ...
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Best Way to Bulk Scan Center Stapled Booklets
I wanted to scan some A4-Sized Textbooks that had the centre stapled binding. There are around 60 (15-25 sheets each) of them that I wanted to scan as soon as possible. Is there any way I can scan ...
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How do I automatically make zip archives of every folder in a directory if the names are random?
I want to automatically save archives of Roblox versions. The Roblox versions folder path is "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Roblox\Versions". It normally only has 2 folders: one for Roblox,...
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Archiver for macOs that support file modifications in preview
I am a new macOS user and trying to get the same (or find alternatives) stack that I had on the previous platform.
Here is my question: Is there any archiver app available that could open zipped ...
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Archiving cloud stored files to speed up syncing
I have a lot of small files (50,000+) stored in OneDrive. Whenever I log into OneDrive on a new computer, it takes a long time for it to sync the files (without downloading).
Will it speed things up ...
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How do I get a better exploration for archives in ranger?
I'm not a fan of the default exploration for archives in Ranger, which resumes to showing the output of atool when opening the file.
I found out this avfs config, which allows you to explore an ...
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How do I get a better preview for archives in ranger?
I'm not a fan of the default preview for archives in Ranger, and I want to change it.
As an example, for .zip files, the preview displays the plain output of unzip -l <file>. Using custom ...
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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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Gmail Outlook IMAP - archive
I have an IMAP folder in Outlook synching with my Gmail account. I need to delete a lot of email from Gmail to free up space. However, I need to keep these deleted emails in my Outlook.
I assume I ...
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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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Using Robocopy to copy files based on a word in the file name
So ok, I'm looking for a solution to scan a hard drive.
And look for folders in that hard drive that have #ARCHIVE#, and move said folders to a \nas\archive\
I know you can use Robocopy to copy files ...
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Can Archive Manager distinguish between wrong password and corrupted file?
I have two old encrypted RAR files. I know their passwords, but something interesting happens:
When I try to open each file in File Roller (Ubuntu's default archive manager) and enter the wrong ...
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Exchange mailbox archiving via Powershell to .pst file
I'm in a particular situation in which I have to free up space on some mailboxes present on our exchange server, both regular and shared mailboxes.
I remember that years ago, via powershell, it was ...
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fast archiving of multiple files (no compression / encryption)
I pretty often have to pack many small files into one big file for a cloud based archiving. I'm using WinRAR, but archiving 800 GB (even without compression) this way take a few hours. Is there any ...
