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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.sitx File — 7zip can't open it, what can?
I have a sitx archive. I think this is some MAC thing, but I need to open it in Windows.
7Zip doesn't recognize it.
What should I use?
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7-Zip many files from different folders?
I would like to add a large number of files with different names from different folders to a single 7-Zip archive using 7za.exe. This should be simple, but it turned out to be a major pain.
I created ...
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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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Determine which files take up the most space in zip file
I have a zip file with many directories and files inside of it. I'd like to determine which files are taking up the most compressed space in the archive. Anyone know of a handy mechanism to do this?
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Tesing archive with 7-zip
I recently had an issue with corrupted archive files and read about 7-zip being able to test archive files. Would this be useful for trying to fix or remove corrupted archive files for me? If so, how ...
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rename files in rar file without extract it
I want to rename or delete files or folders in a .rar file?
How can I do this?
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Is there a single catch-all-features tracked music format?
I have an archive of old(ish) tracked music in various formats - .mod, .s3m, .it and Commodore 64 .sid files.
Is there a single, well-supported, tracked music format with a super-set of the features ...
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Compressed disk image on Linux
I just got my new computer with a much bigger harddisk. I think I copied all important files over but just to be sure, I'd like to keep a disk image of my old disk. To save space, I'd like to compress ...
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Free command line archivers
Nowadays, we have a plethora of free arhivers (7-zip, j-zip, winrar <-- okey, that one's not free, ...)
But does anyone know of some free command line archivers for popular formats (RAR, ZIP or ...
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Compress a 1GB file into 200_MB?
So I just downloaded MySQL for Windows 64bit which 211.9MB but when I extracted it it is now 1.05GB. How did they do it? They archive wasn't damaged at all nor corrupted.
Before (Compressed):
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How to remove password protection from compressed files
This has always been a problem for me for a long time. Let's see if any SuperUser can solve this:
I have a directory in which there are lots of password protected .RAR files of which I know the ...
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Why do zip files get corrupted on USB Drives?
Why do older USB drives corrupt zip files? The file size appears the same, but the CRC check fails.
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Archiving old, outdated hard drives
I have a number of old hard drives. I've decided to throw them out. But before I do that, I'd like to keep the contents of hard drives, intact.
I tried to use the ISO file format to archive but the ...
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Where can I find 7z format adoption?
How widespread is this format? What archivers support it? I would like to replace zip files I create with 7z. But I'm afraid some people will have problems opening them.
Edit:
The main reason I want ...
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How do you archive digital photos and videos?
Considering failure rate of digital media, hard disks/cds/DVDs, what is the best way to archive family photos and videos ?
I was thinking of having a couple of hard disks that have the same data. ...
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How do delete *.jpg files from an already existing Archive?
I have at least 40 archive files, 100 MB each, which also includes many .jpg files within.
How I can delete the .jpg files from these archives easily?
To be more exact, I am looking for a way to ...
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Analyzing properties of a zip file
I have a zip file here, and i want to determine how it was compressed (the specific algorithm, properties used to apply that algorithm, etc.). What software can do this for me?
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Is it possible to create a RAR from specific selected files inside another RAR?
So I have one RAR and I want to create another RAR from only the (let's say 10K) files inside that compressed archive without uncompressing it.
Hope this makes sense and thank you all in advance!
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How can I automatically remove files after they've been archived?
How do i archive and remove excess files example.
cd ~/Desktop && tar -cvf sitepack.tar ./
this will give me
ls
Riva_Starr_Feat._Noze_I_Was_Drunk_Official_Video_HD_.mp3
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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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How to get 100% identical compressed files, for source files that only differ in creation date?
I want to be able to compress a file losslessly, and if the original file is identical to another user's file, I want both of our compressed files to match, even if the original file dates are ...
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Are password protected files immune or vulnerable to virus?
Are password protected files immune or vulnerable to virus?
I constantly password protect my files using winrar. And I noticed that it raises an alarm whenever I will scan it using my antivirus ...
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Unpack large zip file over itself
I want to unpack 20Gb archive, but I don't have another 20-30Gb of HDD free space.
Is it possible to unpack this file over itself ?
So that zip file will be deleted after unpacking and I will have ...
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Which file format for saving e-mails as single files, platform-independant and searchable?
I want to store e-mails as single files directly in the file system (in directories together with the other files which belong to the same "project").
What I need:
the e-mail-files have to be ...
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What format should I use to archive my home video DVDs?
I have an old video camera that recorded to mini-tapes. I would then burn the tapes to DVDs. I would like to back-up these DVDs to ensure I have copies of them.
What format should I use to archive ...
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Windows 7 - open with option for a file in opened compressed file
I'm not sure if this is possible or not but if it was it would make my life allot easier. What I want to do is get the "open with" option to open and make edits to a file in a .zip file without ...
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Control gzip compression rates while archiving files with tar?
I have a script which periodically backs up a directory using the command "tar -czvf [name] [directory]" but my problem is that the script has recently been putting a lot of stress on the server ...
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What to use for long term data archival?
I like to archive everything. Currently a small box of CDs holds most of my work and downloads from the past 15 years. Unfortunately, some of the CDs are starting to suffer bit rot, resulting in ...
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Browsable compressed filesystem archive with full attributes?
Maybe a variation of the whole question would be: Are there any other archiving tools than tar that preserve Linux file permissions and user/group flags?
I want to create archives of a directory tree ...
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How to open a EAR/WAR file in windows 7
I have a few EAR/WAR files which are Java archives and I would like Windows 7 to open these files the way it opens a file with extension zip.
So I open this war file and in the list of softwares ...
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How to add a root folder to files archived with 7zip
I want to create a distribution archive of my code that includes a subset of directories and excludes all the subversion files.
I would like the files to be added to the archive with a root folder ...
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Good practices of creating redundant archive for long time cloud storage
I want to create digital archive of photos, documents and other imporant stuff to store in the cloud (likely Amazon Glacier). Preferably one year per archive, up to 10 gigabytes each. I want to make ...
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Efficient way to create archives in Linux on a server
Today I wanted to create a backup from a folder on a server with 16 CPUs. I started looking for an option that can utilize my hardware to archive a folder better than how tar does it. Something with ...
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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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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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Archiving large folders
I'd like to create a (compressed) archive of a folder which contains ~350,000 items totalling ~17 GB.
Is .tar.gz a sane format to use, or would .zip, .rar, or .7z work better for handling that much ...
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is Winrar's “store” mode the same as tar?
The question kind of says it all. When archiving files with Winrar you get the option of different compression modes, one of which is "store".
I'm under the impression this does no actual compression ...
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Put tar'd files in a subdirectory
I have a directory setup like the following:
folder_x
file.y
file.z
I would like to create a tar file so that when it's extracted the structure will look something like this:
dir_q/folder_x
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Creating/extracting RAR files on Mac OS X
I would like to be able to create RAR files easily on Snow Leopard with some sort of GUI utility. I know that RARlabs maintains a Mac version of the RAR command line utility, but I don't want to have ...
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LamedropXPd-like very simple zipper?
A friend of mine needs to zip a bunch of MP3's on her locked-down XP or Vista PC at work. There are two requirements:
Since she doesn't have admin rights, the application should either not require ...
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Specify root dir inside tarball
Is there a way to execute
tar cjvf foo.tar.bz2 project-root
Such that when the tarball is extracted, it doesn't extract to project-root, but instead extracts to something else? i.e.
tar xjvf ...
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What compressed archive formats can Windows 8 open natively?
I like Windows' built-in handling of ZIP files, and I like to associate compressed files with Windows Explorer whenever possible, rather than a third-party file archiver like 7-zip. Aside from ZIP and ...
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How to get a specified file extracted from a JAR file using a batch file?
I have a test.jar file on windows and I want to use 7-zip to get a certain file from outside of the archive, such as the "com/app/test/FILE.class" file. I only have access to java, 7-zip, and the ...
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Is there a twitter client which automatically saves all tweets I see?
I'd like every tweet about certain topics saved, so tweets with a certain hashtag, word, user, etc.
To reiterate, if I see a tweet, I want to save it forever and ever.
I'm running Ubuntu Linux.
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Remove known password from zip archive without extracting
is it possible to remove a known password from a ZIP archive without extracting the actual archive?
I have some heavily compressed archives and want to avoid having to extract and rezip each of those ...
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Can you fix a corrupted 7z file?
So, I had a cd, with a scratch on it. The cd contained a 7z file. When I try to copy the file it gave me an error, so I used corrupted disk repair fixer and I managed to open the 7z, and view the ...
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How do I add files from a directory to a .zip-File using the 7zip command line?
I am using the 7zip command line to zip-up files. How can I add all files and subdirectorys from a folder to a zip file (.jar archive file)? I used:
7zip.exe a -t7z file.zip C:\folder
Thank you.
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Read only email archive
I have a big gmail email database and i want archive it, and use in read only mode. I want to use like thunderbird, but without structure modifying functionality or email deletion possibility, just in ...
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How do I configure Google Chrome to open zip files in file-roller instead of Nautilus?
When I download a .zip file using Google Chrome on Linux, upon clicking it the .zip file opens my Downloads folder in Nautilus, not the .zip file in file-roller. Ironically, Google is mum on the ...
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Solution to archive and search PDF files on a NAS
In my company we have a lot of customer information saved in .pdf files which are stored on a QNAP NAS.
I want to be able to do a quick search for information inside the .pdf, like Contract Numbers ...
