Archiving
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From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 16 Dec 2009 22:11 Bee <Bee(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >I have hundreds of top level folders that I need to zip individually and >keep apart. Why? Why not just make a large zip file every few days of the entire set of files and be done with it? Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
From: dpb on 17 Dec 2009 17:54 Bee wrote: .... > Anyway this is what I want to do. > Point at a top level folder containging sub folders I want to archive. > Hit a button and cycle through each top level subfolder and Zip (with > delete) all files and sub-sub folder files into a Zip within the subfolder. > Continue until all subfolders have beens zipped, one .zip for each subfolder. > .... > What I am not sure about is how to do the Zip. .... > Sugestion please and a little code help to run the WinZip ... As suggested earlier it's only a few lines of batch code (assuming one uses a rational command processor like one of those from JP Software <www.jpsoft.com>) For TCC/LE (a free downloadable console processor) the following works just fine starting in a top directory to create the requested .zip files in each subdirectory. Only a trivial extension if there are parallel higher directories is an "exercise left to the student"... :) @echo off for /a:d /r /h %d in (*.*) ( cd "%d" pkzip -add "%d\bakzip" *.* except ("%d\bakzip.zip") del *.* ) --
From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 21 Dec 2009 23:03 Bee <Bee(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: Ah, this then sounds like a design decision made by the Windows development team rather than drivers. I vaguely recall reading something somewhere somewhen stating MS had fixed this logic up in Win 7. But I sure could be wrong. Tony >Hmmm ... I have several vista PCs and several XP PCs. >The Vista PCs have SATA 3G drives. >The XP PCs have the old IDE drives. >XP kick a$$. >I wrote a test routine for disk writing and reading. >My app pushes the Vista drives to near their spec but Vista Windows Explorer >copy paste operations for one SATA to another SATA are dog slow. >Seems that Vista puts this type of op in the background tasks and frees up >CPU time for other things. >This is a Quad Intel 2.4GHz PC with 4G RAM and usually 2 GBytes free. >Even my XP laptop beats the QUAD by a wide margin. >> >so i need to copy "zip" files to CD, DVDs and flash quickly. >> >that leaves Vista and probably Win7 out. >> >XP is pretty quick. >> >> On this I don't see how Vista and Win 7 would be significantly slower >> than XP. When copying large amounts of data you're mostly at the >> mercy of the drivers and raw hardware. >> >> Tony >> -- >> Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP >> Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm >> Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ >> For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files >> updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ >> Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/ >> . >> -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
From: mscir on 22 Dec 2009 01:36
Bee wrote: > Hmmm ... I have several vista PCs and several XP PCs. > The Vista PCs have SATA 3G drives. > The XP PCs have the old IDE drives. > XP kick a$$. > I wrote a test routine for disk writing and reading. > My app pushes the Vista drives to near their spec but Vista Windows Explorer > copy paste operations for one SATA to another SATA are dog slow. > Seems that Vista puts this type of op in the background tasks and frees up > CPU time for other things. > This is a Quad Intel 2.4GHz PC with 4G RAM and usually 2 GBytes free. > Even my XP laptop beats the QUAD by a wide margin. > > > "Tony Toews [MVP]" wrote: >> Bee <Bee(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >>> so i need to copy "zip" files to CD, DVDs and flash quickly. >>> that leaves Vista and probably Win7 out. >>> XP is pretty quick. >> On this I don't see how Vista and Win 7 would be significantly slower >> than XP. When copying large amounts of data you're mostly at the >> mercy of the drivers and raw hardware. >> Tony Would you consider doing a speed test using xcopy and robocopy and publishing the results? http://itsvista.com/2007/03/xcopy/ http://itsvista.com/2007/03/robocopy/ Mike |