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I need help extracting this partially corrupt WinRAR 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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What's the most reliable archive utility for Windows? [closed]
By reliable I mean that can successfully extract archives where other tools fail.
On Mac I was told that it's BetterZip, I need a tool to recommend to my Windows users.
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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
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/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 ...
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Files inside archives can't be opened inside 7zip
I open the archive inside 7zip, then double-click a file inside the archive to open it with the associated application, and I get "File not found" errors in the app (for example opening a image in ...
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git archiving old folders
i have a big git repo with some old folders in there. i dont need them in my master branch and they are a little bit annoying there but i dont want to loose the data, so archiving would be great.
now ...
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How can I unarchive .IAB files?
I'm attempting to recover data for someone and was given a backup hard drive filled with .IAB files. I've searched Google and have tried tar and gunzip on OS X 10.6 but with no success.
How can I ...
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How to search the content of archives (7z)?
I am looking for a way to search the content of files inside of 7z archive without having to unpack the archive. I have many 7z archives with code inside them and I'd like to search them.
Is there a ...
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Any online long term Archival Soultions? [closed]
I am looking for a long term archival solution on the cloud, what I need is to archive some files that I don't need to access often but also don't want to keep around on local disks. These are files ...
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Extract a certain file from an archive with 7zip from the command line
If I have an archive,e.g. some.zip that contains one or more files. How can I extract with 7zip only one file(I know the name of the file) from the command line in Windows?
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Best solutions to archive e-mail for cross platform access [closed]
I've got emails going back as far as the early 90s and currently they are spread through various backups of TB, pst files, even a load of mac emails.
I currenly have around 9 or 10 accounts (as I ...
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How do I find out which RAR file is corrupt?
I have a RAR I downloaded made up of multiple files. When trying to extract it, it tells me the data is incomplete, something bad with one of the files.
Considering I had to download multiple large ...
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Recommend archiver software on OSX [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What’s a good way to extract .rar files on the Mac?
Please recommend a nice software which will work on Lion. Default one is extracting immediately after I double click ...
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How to make Lion’s Mail.app work with Gmail archive feature [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to stop Mail.app in Lion creating an Archive folder for archiving in Gmail?
I recently upgraded to Lion. Until then I was using Sparrow for my mailing needs. I’d ...
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Mac application or method to arrange folders on archive DVDs with “best fit”
I'm archiving my home movies and have lots of folders (i.e. events) with between several hundred MB and a few GB of video files in each. Is there an application or method to arrange these folders ...
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How do I create seperate 7z files from each selected directory with 7zip command line?
FOR %i IN (*.*) DO 7z.exe a "%~ni.7z" "%i"
Does the job for each selected file.
However I've got tons of directories (with files inside them obviously) I need to pack.
Say I have d:\dir1, d:\dir2, ...
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Does the RAR compression algorithm compress better than the ZIP compression algorithm?
I took 3 test files and ZIPped them. With the 3 test files again I RARred them. Each .RAR archive is smaller than the corresponding .ZIP archive.
Does the RAR compression algorithm give a better ...
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How to archive a large amount of video files?
I have a video recording system that writes '.raw' video files to disk. I have a 6TB span of hard drives that it writes to. This allows just over 2 months of recordings before old ones are deleted.
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How do I create seperate zip files for each selecterd file/dir in 7zip?
This is the internal zip packer from Total Commander:
However I want to use my 7zip packer. When I selecet 5 files, I get 5 seperate .zip archives for each selected file. How do I do that in 7zip?
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Backup solution: hash/checksumming and/or error correction
I'm trying to keep my data well protected with backups, using multiple hard drives (basically swapping the backup disk out every week). For checking validity, I was originally planning on md5summing ...
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How can I evaluate the best choice of archive format for compressing files?
In general, I've observed the following:
Linux-y files or tools use bzip2 or gzip for distributing archives
Windows-y files or tools use ZIP for distributing archives
Many people use 7-Zip for ...
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Creating an OS X PKG file on Linux?
I have Debian / Ubuntu / Xubuntu. I'm trying to distribute and run a Python file with the least number of clicks for the end user. How do I create a PKG file for Mac OS X on Linux?
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Best archive format & tool for large amounts of data (50gb+)
I only realised this afternoon that the ZIP format has a limit of what appears to be around 20gb. I am trying to automate an archive process (using Automate) to zip/rar/whatever a collection of ...
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How to omit the “.” directory when creating a tar from directory?
To create a backup of entire directory I do:
tar -cPzf /home/misha/path/to/tar/tar_name.tar.gz
-C /home/misha/path/to/directory/to/backup .
In the resulting tar_name.tar.gz beside the files ...
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Storing large amounts of small files into bigger files on Windows
Let's say I have 50 GiB of files that weights around 500 KiB each.
My guess is that having, for example, 5 large files of 10 GiB each with the same content archived in them would be better for hard ...
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How do I use autoarchive to decrease primari .pst filesize?
I have a computer which has Windows and Office installed on an 60 GiB SSD. Size of mailbox is around 13 GiB. The .pst file associated with the mailbox is around 31 GiB and I need to somehow make it ...
