Re: Make a working copy from an export

Greetings, Les Mikesell!

>>>>>> You can get laptop-sized USB-powered external drives all the way up to
>>>>>> 500Gb these days so portability isn't a huge problem. The quick-fix
>>>>>> here might be to simply zip or tar -z the working copy if that will make
>>>>>> it fit, though.
>>>> Since the data is his music library, this is likely mp3 or m4a files
>>>> which are already compressed. Zip won't be able to compress them any
>>>> further.
>>
>>> Are any of the common compression techniques good enough to notice that
>>> you have 2 copies of everything? Zip wouldn't because it handles each
>>> one separately.
>>
>> 2 copies of what? Where you saw that he have duplicates in library?
>> If you want to make differential/sequential archive, you could use rar.
>> Also, rar and 7z support solid compression (God! I think only zip don't
>> support it yet!)

> A working copy has 2 copies of each unchanged file - the visible one and
> the hidden pristine copy, which is the cause of the size problem in the
> first place.

Point.
Then even solid archiving won't help much. Most likely, every single file just
bigger than any archiver dictionary.

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WBR,
 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon_at_freemail.ru) 18.04.2009, <21:39>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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