folder archives

[rejetto]

I'm back on folder archives.
After many hours, i fixed tar compatibility, and now the generated archives should be perfect.
I just created a 7GB archive, with many folders and 1400 files. All went good.

I still have bugs with resuming (seeking in the middle of the archive), i need more time.
Tar format is very easy, so it's a good starting point. When this format will work flawlessly, i will try implementing another format, like zip or rar.

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[TSG]

nice, .zip is good for all round compatibility, .rar is also like that now with the latest winZIP archiver also opening .rar , .tar i haven't really had much experience with but it seem my archiver here opens it

awesome cant wait for this!

[MarkV]

Most commonly used ones were .ZIP, .ARJ, .LZH - nowadays .ZIP followed by .RAR.

.tar is commonly known in the *NIX world. .tar does not compress the data, only compact it into one file for further processing by gzip or bzip2.

Maybe even consider LZMA (7-Zip) as it is Open Source? http://www.7-zip.org


MarkV

[rejetto]

compression is not acceptable
just storing

[traxxus]

compression is not acceptable
just storing

whyyyyyy nooot ?   

[rejetto]

think of tens people who have the power to start compressing huge archives on your machine, just by clicking on a link.
brrrrrrrr


another big problem: the archive would not be resumable.

[TSG]

Yes i don't agree with compression, it risks crashing the host pc, compressing any archive causes a pc to use a lot of cpu, if you get many connections trying to do the same thing BOOM cpu overload and computer crashes, but the ability to gather all the files within a folder together and download them is perfectly fine, and if .tar achieves this then use it!

[MarkV]

No problem, my archiver of choice (7-Zip) fully supports tar archives. Maybe it would even be possible to reverse the process, the user creates a .tar of the folder to upload and HFS de-compacts when upload is finished. BAM, folder uploaded. Just a thought...


MarkV

[TSG]

ok this is strange... i woke up this morning to find my secondary virus scanner 'AVG free 7.5' had detected a virus... and the virus was related to a file in my archive software 'winRAR' ... it said it was a 'generic trojan downloader 4' i don't remember the exact file now cause i quarantined and removed it as fast as possible... it was a .SFX extension within the dir of winRAR... anyway, its fixed now, just thought i would bring it up as i have only extracted the .tar files from HFS #100 recently with testing. Probably totally unrelated but i just found it a bit to close to home to just not bother posting it up here. 

EDIT: Anyhoo on further downloading and extracting/ virus scanning i cannot replicate the issue so it is most likely totally unrelated  .


P.S. Its working perfectly, just wish we could restrict its usage to accounts.

[Alons0]

Does this option work (arhiveing)? If it works is there a symbol or something which is need to be pasted in the template?

[TSG]

All you have to do is put ' ~folder.tar ' on the end of your url for the folder you want to archive download, this can of course be used in the template... <a href="%item-url%~folder.tar"><img src="/~img33" alt="Download Archive" align=top></a>

[Guest]

I'm missing something, obviously.
How do you limit the folder archive feature to the contents
of certain folders ? I can't see using it without that.

[Alons0]

All you have to do is put ' ~folder.tar ' on the end of your url for the folder you want to archive download, this can of course be used in the template... <a href="%item-url%~folder.tar"><img src="/~img33" alt="Download Archive" align=top></a>

Hey i put <a href="%item-url%~folder.tar">Download archive</a> but when i point the link is for example http://10.6.13.25/mp3/%item-url%~folder.tar
It doesn't work. Why? I try to open http://10.6.13.25/mp3/~folder.tar and then the browser allows me to download the folder archive. But why there's a bug with %item-url%
EDIT: I found the problem the link must be only "~folder.tar"

[Foggy]

Im not sure if im right but ill try anyway
When hfs see's %item-url% it replaces it with the url so if you put %item-url% in a browser it will just get an error because it has no idea what it is refering to and if you can understand what i just said your doing alot better then me, LOL 
anyways i hope that helped in some way
i just had a second thought which might help if you dont understand what i just wrote up top because if i didnt write it id be thinking...
the reason why you only need ~folder.tar is because %item-url% represents http://10.6.13.25/mp3/
before i think of some other thing that will confuse myself i should goto bed and get some shut eye

[TSG]

<a href="%item-url%~folder.tar">Download Archive</a> this would depend on your template. It works fine in mine basically all that has to be done is to put ~folder.tar on the url then it works.