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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Deleting read only files from a multivolume rar achive
I have installed a multivolume archive that takes up a lot of space. I unpacked most of the files inside it one by one, and now I would like to delete them from the archives. When I try to do so, it ...
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What does the file Attribute N mean in 7zip?
I'm trying to create a 7z archive, that will be accepted by another program that uses 7z archives to save its files.
The main difference I can see between my archive and one created by the program ...
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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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How to fix a corrupted 7z archive?
I have a corrupted 7zip file , the sources have been deleted
and i tried to understand https://7-zip.org/recover.html but I couldn't fix them:
When I tried to extract it shows:
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How to rollback a specific directory in ZFS snapshot?
Is it possible to rollback to a certain directory within a snapshot? For example, given the snapshot tank/home@snapshot_week_01 can I rollback to something like tank/home/louis@snapshot_week_01 ...
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How to RAR files in alphabetical order
I am trying to create a multipart RAR archive on Ubuntu. The folder structure resembles:
folder_root
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file01.bin
file02.bin
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file100.bin
The command I am using is rar a -v5G archive.rar ...
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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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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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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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How can I extract .rar files on the Mac?
How can I extract RAR files in macOS? The built-in Archive Utility only supports ZIP.
Is there anything else, built-in or third-party, that also supports RAR?
I don't mind whether it's Terminal-only ...
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How secure are password-protected zip files?
In modern zip utilities like 7zip, you can specify a password when creating a .ZIP file. But, how secure is this? What encryption algorithm(s) are used to secure password-protected zip files?
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Universal command line unarchiving tool on a Mac
Is there some command line tool which allows extracting files from most known archive types? Something like StuffIt Expander, but without gui.
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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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What other archive formats save Date Created and Date Accessed?
Compressing Files
When zipping files with Windows' built-in zip utility, it will not save the Date Created in the archive:
Also, I just found a bug where Windows will not save the Date Modified of ...
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Possible bug in 7zip - empty folders extract as empty files
I have a directory structure as follows:
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|--example.txt
I'm zipping it using the .NET ZipFile.CreateFromDirectory method (but I doubt this has anything to ...
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