[delphizip] Re: Temp file and limitations

  • From: Vincent MORIAUX <vmoriaux@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:19:52 +0100

Roger Aelbrecht wrote:
> Vincent MORIAUX wrote:
>   
>> Hi again,
>>
>>
>> I've two issues zipping (no compression) more than 400GB of data from 
>> and to a network share:
>>     * The ZIP is created locally in the temp directory before been moved 
>> to the final destination. Is there a way to forbid the temp file step ?
>>     * The ZIP created ZIP file size is only 4GB and contain only a small 
>> part of the source files. Is there a limitation to ZIP file size ? Is 
>> there a solution to that ?
>>
>> I'm using latest TZipMaster and DLL (v1.79)
>>
>> Thanks
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> 1.
> Using the temp file is done by design, it simply makes it work faster, 
> if network share access is needed for every write operation it would 
> take too long ( and there are many write operations)
>
> 2.
> Yes there is a limit of 4GB on the size of the zip file.
>
> To work with larger files you have to wait until the next version of 
> ZipMaster that includes Z to overcome the file limitation
>
>
>   
Thank you for your help Robert.
Do you know if this new version is going to be released soon or should I 
look for an alternative ?
Anyway you guys did a great work with these DLL and components.
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