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I am running the following command:

7z.exe a -t7z -m9=LZMA2 test.7z test.txt

However, I get this error: System error:The parameter is incorrect. The error only occurs if I use the -m9=LZMA2 or -m9=LZMA switches. If I remove it, it works perfectly fine. What am I doing wrong?

I am executing the command from Windows XP, 7 and 2008.

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  • Your command works on my end - which version of 7zip are you using?
    – zb226
    Aug 26, 2012 at 21:26
  • @zb226 - Version 9.20
    – PeanutsMonkey
    Aug 26, 2012 at 21:35
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    Weird, that's the same version I'm using... If I change LZMA2 to something bogus, like xyz, I get the The parameter is incorrect. error... And using LZMA works too, btw.
    – zb226
    Aug 26, 2012 at 21:41
  • @zb226 - Would anything else cause the issue?
    – PeanutsMonkey
    Aug 26, 2012 at 23:16
  • Tried it on another machine today and it works there as well (exactly as stated above). Did you download it from here? For reference, the MD5 hash is 42badc1d2f03a8b1e4875740d3d49336.
    – zb226
    Aug 27, 2012 at 10:30

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I believe you're misinterpreting the meaning of the -m? switch...
-m9=lzma2 doesn't give you better compression than -m0=lzma2, that's the -mx switch.

Try this instead:

7za a -t7z -m0=lzma2 -mx=9 archive.7z files
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  • Nowadays, with 7z 7-Zip [64] 9.20 under Linux, the options -m9=lzma2 and -m0=lzma2 lead to different files with different sizes, is it so even for windows?
    – Hastur
    Jul 18, 2016 at 10:31

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