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Archiving/Compressing large number of pictures [closed]
I have been looking around but can not seem to find what is the best compression practice for a large image library ? I know that compression does not do well with images, and I probably will not get ...
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Local storage for Exchange mail - Outlook 2007
Is it possible to save offline copies of your mail on outlook 2007 running an exchange platform. I am not talking about creating a seperate folder and copying mail to it. With Thunderbird running ...
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Merge incremental backups created by tar -g
(forgive my poor English. I'm not native)
As is known, I can make incremental backups using tar:
tar -g testbk -cvpf test0.tar test
(After test/ is modifyed...)
tar -g testbk -cvpf test1.tar test
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Zip multiple folders indvidually, automatically
I have folders full of photos within category folders
eg
holidays
spain
france
italy
family
son
daugher
christmas
2010
2011
... except much longer ... there are about 100 folders.
I need ...
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How to print dir tree of a 7zip archive?
Before extract archive.7z, I always check what in side:
$ 7z l archive.7z
...SKIP...
2010-01-01 00:00:00 ..... 25856 7367 jsloader/resource/gre/modules/source-editor-textarea.jsm
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Seeking a GUI archiver with the ability to exclude files/folders with tickboxes
I've been searching for a GUI tool to create zip, 7-zip or tar archives that will allow me to include and exclude files and folders using a GUI. The dialog during archive creation should look ...
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Looking to report on last file access for our archives
We are looking to generate a report that would let us know when files in our archive were last accessed. We are trying to determine which files can be moved to lower cost and slower storage devices, ...
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Create a tar and splitting it into multiple archives then putting them back together
I am using the following for creating the tgz files:
tar zcf - /usr/folder | split -b 30720m - /usr/archive.tgz
Now I get three files: archive.tgzaa, archive.tgzab and archive.tgzac
So again I ...
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Can I archive in Outlook if it is not running in cached mode?
The client is Outlook 2010. It has almost a 12Gb mailbox. I want to run a series of archives to drastically reduce the size of the mailbox. Can I run the archives if Outlook is not in cached mode?
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7-zip archive with hard links?
I see that tar respects hard links
$ ln clonezilla.iso test.iso
$ tar cfvvJ archive.tar.xz *.iso
-rw-r--r-- Steven 111149056 2012-03-25 07:34 clonezilla.iso
hrw-r--r-- Steven 0 2012-03-25 ...
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Does 7zip extract to a temporary file and then rename the temporary to the actual target?
I ask this question because I'd like to be able to unpack an archive that may also contain the very program that is calling 7zip to unpack the archive. Linux/Unix allows a file to be deleted or ...
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How to create an archive without hierarchy
I know there are a lot of questions that seems identical, but I haven't found so far my answer.
So let's figure I'm in the current working directory : /test/
I would like to add to an archive ...
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Freeware (preferably open-source) tool for creating multi-file spanning archives as a self merging SFX
I have a large file I want to transfer using either Internet storage hosting, DVD-Rs or USB storage, which sometimes is limited to FAT file-systems (for example: mobile phones)
What I'm basically ...
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How do I enable multi-threaded LZMA2 using 7-zip 9.20 on the command line?
How do I enable multi-threaded LZMA2 using 7-zip 9.20 on the command line? I know this is normally done with the -t option like so: "-tzip" .
How do I do this with LZMA2? I tried -tlzma and ...
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Where are Outlook for Mac 2011 Archives stored?
I have a series of archives listed in my Outlook Mac 2011:
I want to delete them, but am nervous about deleting the original olm. Are these copies of the data I imported in Outlook, or just links ...
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File extraction errors
I have a gigabyte 970 motherboard. A 64 gb SSD, a 1tb HDD and an AMD fx6200 CPU. Graphics AMD Radeon hd 6870. 8 gb ram. Nothing is overclocked, everything is stock. So I downloaded a few large ...
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Can Double Zipping Cause Problems?
I have a directory that I have been storing a ton of files in. Among the 10ish types of files there are also .ZIPs of other directories.
In my personal experience I vaguely remember issues when ...
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Is there any kind of archive for zone files?
In the same way that the Wayback Machine has vast amounts of data of what websites used to look like at arbitrary timepoints, is there any analogous service that keeps track of zonefile changes?
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LogRotate use regex for filename
I have a custom logging class that creates a log for each instance of the process and adds a unique id to the log file name, example:
process.1234.log
process.1235.log
Also I can add a date/time ...
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How to backup a specific folder, with subfolders, in Outlook 2011 Mac?
I can drag-n-drop a folder in Outlook 2011 for Mac to my desktop and it automatically stores it as a .mbox file which I can import later. It does not work for folders that have subfolders. Only ...
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Linux: Specifying top level-directory when creating zip archive
I have project with the usual directory structure (src/, bin/, ...), i.e
project-name/
|-- bin
|-- lib
|-- src
`-- Makefile
And would like to create an archive with the following directory ...
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Programmatically backing up SMS on Android
I want to archive my SMS and MMS messages on my Android phone. I found a few applications that can do this and save the results to an SD card or email. That's nice, but not powerful enough for me. I ...
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Modifying the path inside an archive for extraction
I would like to change the path of extraction of a .tar.gz archive. The files are supposed to extract as ./1/2/3/4/files, ./1/2/3files and so on.
The .1/2 part of those is common to all the files.
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How to extract data from a partially corrupt multi-part rar archive?
I downloaded a video that's 11 parts the other day. Today I tried to extract it but it tells me that part04 is corrupt. So I checked "keep broken files", but of course it only gave me the beginning of ...
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Archive calendar events
I'm using Mac and iCal synchronized with my google calendar and unfortunately iCal has problems syncing the calendar which is most probably due to there being too many events. (iCal even crashes ...
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Outlook 2007 Archive Behavior with Exchange 2007
I didn't make it clear enough to an end user with a 4 GB mailbox how the archive feature works. He didn't know that it was going to create a second set of folders that he would have to look through. ...
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What software can I use to scrape (download) a MediaWiki wiki?
I want to scrape an entire wiki that uses MediaWiki software. The amount of pages are pretty small, but they have plenty of revisions, and I'd like to preferably scrape revisions as well.
The wiki ...
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Deploy / sync files with automatic archive of files to replace
Is there a Windows application that can deploy files from one location to another, but also move away the files that are to be replaced at the destination, into an archive location?
Example scenario: ...
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Exctract files to a different folder
On a Windows XP machine, I have a zip file located on "c:\temp\mydata\okidata.zip"; using 7-Zip application, I would like to write a batch script and extract the file silently to the following ...
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IPhoto without using the “photo library”?
I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to use iPhoto without having all the photos and movies lumped into one giant archive file but rather store them as individual files in subfolders (similar to ...
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Command /usr/sbin/chown failed with exit code 1 Error when archiving
I'm trying to archive a project to submit it to the iOS App Store, but keep getting this problem. I have already set yes to the skip install option, re-installed Xcode, rebooted and re-copied my ...
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Any tool (paid/free) to add folders to CAB archive?
Do any of you know CabPack? A tool from 99 that allows to add folders to a CAB archive.
Are there any alternatives to this software? Cabpack doesn't have command line options.
I tried ...
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What medium should be used for long term, high volume, data storage (archival)?
This question was inspired by How to store and preserve lots of data?
There have been another similar questions, but none with this type of criteria.
This is two questions in one.
How do you store ...
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What's the best way to compress and store archived DVD media images? [closed]
I'm currently using RipIt to archive and store my DVDs digitally so the DVD media can go into a box in storage.
Obviously these image files are quite large, essentially the same size as the DVD. Is ...
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ISO Archive vs Cd Image
Is getting an image of a disc (eg with brasero) the same thing as going into the cd, selecting everything and putting it into a .iso archive (eg with 7zip or ubuntu's archive manager)?
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How can I reliably archive the content of UDF formatted CDs and DVDs
I have been looking into copying the contents of old CDs onto mobile disks in order to save space and preserve the content, since rewritable CDs appear to degrade over time (at least the ones I am ...
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How to add files to specified folder in archive with 7zip command line
I have folders and files on my disk
C:\builds\main.exe
D:\components\a\testa.exe
D:\components\b\testb.exe
D:\components\c\testc.exe
D:\dependencies\abc.dll
Can I create an archive with 7z command ...
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Ignoring path while archiving with TAR
I have a file that contain list of files I want to archive with tar.
Let's call it mylist.txt
It contains:
/path1/path2/file1.txt
/path1/path2/file3.txt
...
/path1/path2/file10.txt
What I want to ...
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Archiving files from previous/old computers
I'm not sure that the title is very explicit, so I'll try to explain briefly my problem is/what I'm trying to achieve:
Like most of you, I guess, I have had several computers in the course of my ...
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Outlook Calendar deletes my old entries after two years. How can I stop that?
Outlook Calendar offers auto-archiving and automatic elimination of old appointments. "Old" is defined by the user up to 60 months I believe. I have set it to 60 months but appointments are still ...
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Does software (similar to DVDisaster) exist which can create images and parity at the same time?
DVDisaster is an awesome tool for archiving things reliably, as it creates ECC in case of physical damage to the media. However, when using it for backup purposes it can be a bit awkward -- one must ...
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How to UnTar Wordpress contents to my document root without “wordpress” folder?
The contents of a Wordpress Tarball are all contained within a single directory called "wordpress". I would like to upload the archive to my server (CentOS) and UnTar all the files directly to the ...
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How can I change the password prompt in a self-extracting WinRAR archive?
I create a password-protected self-extracting archive using WinRAR. When I open the archive the executable asks me for a password. How can I change "Enter password for the encrypted file." to a custom ...
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What does it mean for WinRAR to “check for SFX archives”?
I understand what are SFX archives, but what does WinRAR installer means when it asks "where to check for SFX archives" :
==Windows Vista Home Premium sp2
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Is there any advantage to using ISO vs Folders for CD rips?
I've used ISOs when ripping my CDs just to keep the integrity of the CD, but the only problem is that if I ever needed to edit a file inside, I would wind up unpacking the WHOLE iso, ...
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Utility that can add files to a volumed archive?
Is there a utility/archive format that works on windows, that can add files to an already existing archive that is split into volumes (like file.rar.001, file.rar.002)? And if the size of these new ...
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TAR vs CPIO, what is the difference?
I am curious and did a bit of reading but still have questions.
What makes CPIO different than TAR? I was told in another question that tar is for pulling together many files into 1 archive which ...
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Is there a chat log archiver that can import logs from multiple clients?
Is there an application that can help with organising chat logs from multiple sources?
The use case I'm interested in is if I have logs from different chat clients (Adium, iChat, Skype, XChat, ...
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pax change directory similar to tar
tar has -C, --directory DIR: change to directory DIR. Does pax have something similar? This can be useful for backing up directory structures/hierarchies in a relative fashion, such as ./sysconfig, ...
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How can I archive web pages linked to in my Delicious bookmarks?
I'm looking for ways to quickly backup the web pages I have collected in my Delicious Bookmarks, to guard against linkrot, etc. The most efficient method I've come up with so far would be to export my ...
