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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Mac OS X Program to Sort Files Into Folders for Burning?
So I have 90 GB of photos from an event that I'm going to make contact sheets for and put onto DVD. It's sorted by photographer and by subject. Normally what I do is make folders for each disc, then ...
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Extracting files into separate folders
I have few zip files that has at least 10000 files each. I would like to extract files into separate folders by year and month.
How can I do that. I have Windows XP Pro.
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programmatically extract tar.gz in a single step (on windows with 7zip)
PROBLEM: I would like to be able to extract tar.gz files in a single step. This makes my question almost identical to this one: stackoverflow question for tar-gz.
My question is almost the same, but ...
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A compression program that handles files with unusual extensions [closed]
WAR files are simply ZIP files with a renamed extension. I'd like to configure a compression program to handle these (on double-clicking the file), but mine doesn't recognize them unless I rename them ...
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Automatically unzip/untar downloaded files?
Is there a way to automatically unzip/untar everything I download? Preferably without installing anything (I already have enough programs running all the time) and something that works with all ...
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Video encoding for archival
I would like to archive some home videos (DV). I don't need to save them losslessly, but I would like to encode them in something high-quality.
What format is both pretty indistinguishable from the ...
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How do I reassemble a zip file that has been emailed in multiple parts?
I received 3 emails each containing part of a zip file. The extensions end in .z00, .z01 and .z02. (Emailed as such to get around the typical 10Mb attachment limit per email.)
I have put all 3 files ...
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Compressed Folder Wizard - other archive formats
Anybody know of a shell extension to make other archive formats, such as RAR, work with Windows' built-in Compressed Folder Wizard?
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Compressing with RAR vs ZIP [closed]
A lot of people are compressing files with RAR, sending compressed files with RAR and so on.
ZIP is more standard and works on all platforms. Windows users have ZIP included and Linux users have no ...