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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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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Downloading Emails locally with Thunderbird
I am using Gmail (web interface) for sometime now, and have well over 20 labels and some thousand mails there archived to different labels in Gmail. Now I want to have a local copy of all my mails and ...
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Export .wlmp file so it can be used on another computer
I'm using Windows Movie Maker to make a simple music videos with image slideshouws as background. Now I keep wondering, if I can somehow save the .wlmp file with inherited images so that it will be ...
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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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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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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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How to archive using the shell extension and still exclude files with 7zip?
How can I exclude files from archiving in 7-zip's "Add to Archive" dialogue? I know how to do this from the command line, but it doesn't seem possible from the "Add to Archive" dialogue.
I thought ...
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Outlook 2010 - performing a macro on all mail
I'm hoping this is a straightforward question - I have a working Macro that performs an action on the Inbox folder. I would like to modify this so that it looks at, and performs its action, on all ...
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Can't view files from within WinRar (Win7 x64)
I have an issue with WinRar (64 bit version) on Windows 7 (x64) that is similar to the one described in another open question on this website
Link to the same issue on this site (unanswered)
However, ...
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Archive & autoarchive not working
I'm using Outlook 2010 w/ Exchange, and one of my folders has AutoArchive setup on it:
Archive this folder using these settings: Clean out items older than 2 weeks
Move old items to default ...
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How can I bulk rename files in a RAR or ZIP archive on the mac?
I have a set of archive files -- both zip and rar formats -- inside of which I need to rename some files. Specifically, I want to do something like this:
for each archive file in a directory
for ...
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Is it possible to create an archive containing files with identical name? [closed]
Is it possible to create an archive in whatever format containing files with identical name located in the same folder? If yes, how?
I need this for some testing purposes. The target OS is Windows. ...
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how to “preserve internal directory structure” when unzipping on windows?
I'm tring to build boost, in instructions I've read
When you extract the library from its zip file, you must preserve its internal directory structure (for example by using the -d option when ...
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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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“extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile,” won't open file
I have an 8.3 gig zip containing tons of telescope observation data, but I can't extract no matter what I try. I've tried Archive Manager, unzip, and tried this guy's fix: ...
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Windows zip error: Windows cannot complete the extraction. The destination file could not be created
I have a strange error in Windows 7 when I want to execute/open a file inside ZIP archive.
I have two files:
File1.dwg
File2.dwg
The archive is not corrupted ( I checked with 7zip utility )
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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 force “Inbox”, “Sent”, and “Outbox” folders to be listed at the top of Outlook archive folders group (above subfolders)?
I have just enabled autoarchiving in Outlook 2010, but I've noticed that some subfolders in my archive PST are in a different order to my original PST file.
Specifically, the "Inbox", "Sent", and ...
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rar files have same name how to join them
I am trying to download an Android game. The files I downloaded are called:
com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftKRHM.part01.rar
com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftKRHM.part02.rar
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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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Midnight Commander not opening .zip files in centos 6.3
I just installed mc on centOS 6.3 server specifically to edit war files, however, it won't let me browse/open any archive files (zip, war etc)?
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How can I scan multiple pages into a single PDF?
How could I scan multiple pages into a single PDF on the Mac?
This is for document archival (mostly invoices and receipts). Ideally, the results should be somewhat searchable (but manually giving it ...
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In Outlook, how do I move e-mail to appropriate folder in Conversation view?
I use conversation view in Outlook 2010. I file away my e-mails into appropriate folders as I deal with them. As I get new e-mails in my inbox, do I really need to move the conversation into the ...
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What is the advantage of using 'tar' today?
I know that tar was made for tape archives back in the day, but today we have archive file formats that both aggregate files and perform compression within the same logical file format.
Questions:
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How to crack a password protected zip file.
I recently downloaded a piece of software that came in a .ZIP archive, but the .EXE software inside of the archive had a password on it. The website that I would have gotten the password from closed ...
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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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How repair windows user profile after interrupted backup
I interrupted windows 7 backup, so after reboot, windows load in temp profile, in list of user's profiles, it marks like a archiving profile. Deleting profile status in reestr don't work.
How to ...
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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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Searching for: Windows 7 unarchiver tool similar to Mac's unarchiver? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
7-zip & Windows 7: Make “Extract to <folder>” default on double-click
I know of WinRAR and 7-zip. I am searching for a tool that will simply ...
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Removind same *.tar.gz archives
I have crontab event archives to .tar.gz some folder every N hours. Finally I have collection of .tar.gz files. Now I want remove duplicating archives (created while target files stays unchanged) How ...
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Split zip archive containing folders now contains “corrupt” zip archive
I zipped and split two folders with 7zip, so I got File.zip.001 to File.zip.010.
I renamed them to Foo.zip.001 to Foo.zip.010, and if I open them now, they only contain a "Foo.zip" file. Upon ...
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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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How long data will stay on cold turned on hard drive? [duplicate]
I am using hard drives in separate cases to backup data. How long this data will stay? How often should I (if should) re-copy stored data?
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One-click to create and extract .tar.gz files in Windows?
I'm using 7-zip latest alpha version (9.30) and I find it really inconvenient that, if I want to create a .tar.gz archive, I have to create a .tar archive first then add it to a .gz archive later.
So ...
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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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tag based file organizer
I'm finishing professional school and over the years have acquired a pile of notes and articles that I'd like to hang onto. I'd like to add to them and create sort of an archive of article and files ...
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What are good digital document filing/archiving solutions? [closed]
We're looking to digitize a lot of our physical paperwork and organize the paperwork we already have in digital format in a better way.
Currently we are using Dropbox for Business but are looking for ...
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Outlook autoarchive quit working
I have Outlook 2007 on Win7 at work. I set up some of my folders to autoarchive to specific archive folders, and it worked. For awhile. Now it has quit working. If I chooser Archive, and select ...
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Tool for local archiving of webpages [closed]
I'm looking for something like http://www.webcitation.org/ , but working locally on my computer, because, I can't be sure 3rd party services will live as long as I am.
Any ideas?
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Caveats about compressed DMG?
I was curious about using compressed and modifiable DMGs to store all kinds of data.
Eg: I've got a tablatures set for guitar which is like 120mb zipped and contains 60-70k files and 1.3Gb unzipped. ...
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Tar file changed as we read it
Does tar skip any files that produce the error "file changed as we read it"? The version of tar I am using is 1.14.
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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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What’s a good way to extract .rar files on the Mac? [closed]
Anything built-in? (E.g. command line tools.) Any well-regarded software?
Update: I like The Unarchiver, but vote up your favourite, or add it as an answer if it isn’t there.
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Synchronizing files using 7zip and the CLI
In the command line, 7zip has the command 'a' to "Add files to archive". But I want to sync the files instead. This is one of the main options in the GUI, but the CLI has disregarded it for some ...
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Find a list of files from text file in subdirectories and put into tarball?
I have a list of files I need to tar. Typically, I would use
tar -cvf allfiles.tar -T mylist.txt
But I discovered that the files I need are scattered into subdirectories and my list only has the ...
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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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Find out the size of a .tar.gz archive in the terminal without unpacking
I have a 32GB .tar.gz archive and I'd like to know the size of the files if I unpack this compressed archive. I'd like to avoid unpacking the archive first and than use e.g. du.
Is it also possible ...
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opening files .arc
I need to open a folder with the extension of .arc .
I've already extracting the file with 7zip and also have tried it using IZArc extractor.But it seems to give me the output of many file (unknown ...
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Commandline program to extract archives with automatic subdirectry detection
What I'm looking for is essentially the pure commandline counterpart to ark -ba <path> (on KDE), or file-roller -h <path> (on GNOME/Unity).
Unfortunately, both ark and file-roller require ...
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Archive / compression formats or tools which support multiple file forks or streams?
Lately I've become interested in the ability of several filesystems including Apple's HFS+ and Microsoft's NTFS which support two or more data streams.
In Mac terminology these were most widely ...
