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Were my original files deleted after cancelling a compression operation in WinRar
I want to know if due to cancelling an ongoing compression operation I might have deleted my files permanently. Does WinRAR delete after all files are archived or line by line ? Or does it confirm ...
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WinRAR - Span Archives instead of splitting (Internet Archive)
I'm having a small issue trying to back up data to the Internet Archive.
I have tried to used 7zip to split files into certain sizes (such as 7G or 25G) to upload better, but IA won't accept ...
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WinRar and 7zip command to extract archive in new folder
Good morning
I would like to know if there is a command in WinRar and 7zip that allows me to extract a compressed file into a new folder with the same file name, equivalent to right-clicking and ...
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How can I compress a large video file as much as possible e.g. 2 GB. to 200MB?
Recently I have received a very large 2 GB video file that was compressed to 200 MB inside a RAR file. How is this possible?
I have tried this instruction but it did not work.
The codec of the video ...
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WinRar is acting weirdly
I tried to unarchive a 40 gig zip archive in my d drive which at the time had 120 gigs free but i was greated by a message that i don't have enough disk space i was really confused and i decided to ...
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Rar is not recognized as an internal or external command
I installed winrar in D:\folderD, both at home, and at work. I have a .rar file in drive E:, E:\folderE\myfile.rar. So, at home I can successfully use the Windows Command Prompt in drive H: with the ...
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How to Prevent WinRar from deleting temporary files?
is there any way when I open a document in a compressed file by double clicking it using WinRar to prevent temporary files deletion after closing the WinRar instance?
I tried changing the extraction ...
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Very different compression rate with two similar files
I'm using WinRar to compress two text files, of approximately the same dimensions (80Mb), which contain a Json structured text.
The text is generated by the same program and, inspecting it, it seems ...
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Compress multiple folders with Winrar command line and batch
I want to compress all the folders that contain the word (Album), these folders have the following structure
Michael Jackson\Invincible (Album)
Michael Jackson\Thriller (Album)
Luciano Pavarotti\'O ...
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Is there any way to view compressed files? [closed]
I don't mean decompressed, I mean like open the compressed WinRAR or zip file as is (compressed)
I want to view the gibberish zipped/Winrared file. without decompression.
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Thanks
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compressing rar\zip avoid file getting corrupted? [closed]
Which good rar\zip compression setting or method to avoid file getting corrupted? store- not compressing anything, just put files together. best- compressing as small as can, it may chance file ...
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Delete compressed file after extraction - how to set the default value?
If I right click on a single RAR file and click : "extract files"
I can see this menu and already know how to delete the original compressed file :
But I have to set this setting each time I'm ...
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How to extract zipped archive hidden behind an image file?
I zipped few files using winRAR and hide those behind an image file using the following command :
Copy /b imagename.jpg + filename.rar finalimage.jpg
The operation was successful, however the ...
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How can I compress multiple files to multiple zip using 7-ZIP?
for example I have one folder which contains below mentioned files:
001.txt
001.doc
002.txt
002.doc
003.txt
003.doc
Continue....
I want all similar file names each in separate zip.
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001.zip ...
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Jpeg File Zipping does not compress at all
i'm trying to compress some jpeg photos, the total dimension is around 150MB, but when i try to zip it using the maximum compressing rate, i keep getting something around 150MB.
I tried with Winrar ...
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How can I compress every 10 files in a folder as a separate zip file?
I'm on Windows 10 and trying to work it out with Winrar. The folder contains 500 files, I would like to compress every 10 of them as a separate zip/rar file and create 50 zip/rar files.
Is there a ...
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How can i compressed(winrar) a file using command prompt and the file name of the .rar is the same with the file
i have a autoback.bat file that will automatically backup my database and compress in using winrar application. the problem is i cannot create a rar file that is the same filename of my database. for ...
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rar - command line switch for exclude compress but store?
Assuming I have few files like :
--- +Royi
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+---1.txt
+---2.txt
+---3.Avi
+---4.mp4
+---5.docx
looking at :
rar a -r -m1 Royi myArchive.rar
This will shrink all files ...
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Winrar self extracting SFX fail to launch
I created an SFX file (to unzip and launch a program directly) with Winrar which is supposed to be installed in a TEMP folder. I specified to launch "bin/myprogram.exe" after extraction.
When I ...
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Winrar command line compression ratio
I have a Winrar command line that look like this:
"c:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe" a -afrar -s -m5 "e:\output.rar" "e:\foldertozip"
The folder that I am compress by default is 9.08MB. The ...
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How can compressed archives like .RAR be repaired?
I'm interested to know how WinRAR and 7-zip repairs archives but unfortunately I couldn't find any description about this process.So I'm here to ask: How does WinRAR or 7-zip repairing process work? ...
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accessing files directly from SFX archive
Similar questions have been asked on this forum, but not identical, so I am sorry if this is a bit redundant.
I have made a "portable" application. I used WINRar to create an SFX self-extracting ...
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How to extract multipart rar with missing parts?
I have a multipart .rar archive containing a single .tar.gz file inside it (don't ask why, that is just how it was made). I am missing a few of the parts, but do have the first part. I would like to ...
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Compressing files over the network with WINRAR - read error
I have 3.6 TB of backup files on a NAS that need to stay together (they are a full and a months worth of incrementals - the latter is only useful with the former) - but I need to move them off the NAS ...
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When compressing a file on command prompt with RAR command, how to stop the process without cancelling it?
I used the following command:
rar a -m2 file.rar *.xml \\myroute\
I want to stop the process on the file that have already been processed i.e. using Ctrl + C will cancel the process but not finish ...
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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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Can we save and resume winrar jobs?
I'm trying to zip a 87 GB folder into multiple volumes, 1 GB each.
WinRar is able to do that, however the entire job takes about 20 hours.
Is there anyway to save and resume the state of the WinRar ...
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Compressing multiple files into multiple archives?
I have a folder full of pdfs and I'm tired of Winraring each file separately. I don't want to put them all in one archive.
Isn't there a command line I can use to make Winrar compress a file with ...
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Does putting media files in archives help save space?
For example if you used WinRAR or Winzip on .mp3 or .wmv files would it save disk space? I thought the answer was no because the compression was already built into their encoding. But then I red this ...
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Set default options for WinRar
Is there some method for setting the default extraction properties for WinRar? I want to make it so that I can open a rar file, press Alt-W and have it decompress to a default location and have it ...
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Zip multiple folders indvidually, automatically
I have folders full of photos within category folders
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holidays
spain
france
italy
family
son
daugher
christmas
2010
2011
... except much longer ... there are about 100 folders.
I need to ...
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Can I compress a RAR file again to reduce its size?
I had a 326 MB iso file that I compressed using WinRAR, with the best compression method. It got compressed to 144 MB.
I want to compress more and want it to be limited to something around 22 MB.
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How to set password on already existing winrar archive and encrypt it also?
Not when creating new archive, but on existing archive. I would also like to know how to do that in other archiver.
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How to determine total file space saved in a directory
I'm running on a Windows 7 computer and there is a directory that contains more than 10,000 compressed files (RAR, ZIP) with more added on a daily basis.
Is there any application or script available ...
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Command line alternative to rar.exe with complex switches
I am searching for a command line alternative to rar.exe from winrar which supports the multitude of options that rar.exe does, preferably one that is open source.
Specifically, I am searching for a ...
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How to make 7-Zip faster
I normally use WinRAR over 7-Zip simply because it's faster and only a little less efficient with compression. I did a few tests on different file types and sizes comparing the 7-Zip and WinRAR ...
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How can I remove the password protection from a RAR archive? [duplicate]
I have a directory in which there are lots of password protected .RAR files/archives. The passwords of these individual archives are known.
I want to remove the password protection from all of them ...
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Commandline to zip a file using WinRar
I looked for the answers in the list and did not find any matching.
What is the commandline to zip a file using Winrar, and then move it to a particular folder?
unknown (yahoo)