[THIN] Re: script to uncompress windows compressed files?
- From: "Steve Snyder" <kwajalein@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:04:50 +1200
compact /u /s /i *.*
Tony, you totally rock! Thanks!
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:51 AM, <Anthony_Baldwin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Steve,
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> I have a batch file that I've used to compress files of a certain age.
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> The important part of the batch is...
> FORFILES -p%strDir% -s -d-%numAge% -c"CMD /C IF @ISDIR==FALSE COMPACT /C
> ""@PATH\@FILE"""
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> This uses the forfiles command (this was part of the resource kit or
> support tools, I think) to find files older than a certain age and compress
> them using the compact command.
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> You may be able to doctor up the forfiles parameters and change the /c to a
> /u to get what you want or maybe you could just run a 'compact /u /s' from
> the root.
>
> Tony
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> wondering if anyone has a nice seek-&-destory script for uncompressing
> files/folders compressed by windows. Yes, you *should* be able to clear the
> compress flag at the roof of the folder, select all files and folders when
> prompted and let windows do it all. Too bad it didn't work.
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> thanks.
>
> btw, I'm not a vmware expert but setting up virtuals with 9GB C: drives
> that are entirely compressed seems to have some minor performance impacts...
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