Internal ZIP >2gb Warning

[quantum]

I started packing several dirs using the internal packer. After some time, I came back to find the warning about >2gb zip files being unreadable in some listers.

Is there any way to turn this warning off? I don't want it popping and stopping long compression jobs.

Since Winzip and pkware have supported >2gb archives for years, it would seem time to eliminate the message altogether. Or at least provide a way to disable it.

[sas2000]

 
It's not a matter of disable any warning message, Tc internal packer doesn't support >2gb files.

You must wait for Tc 7 (or use beta3), this new version will not have this limitation.

Bye.
 

[quantum]

Maybe I should have posted in the beta forum.

I am using beta 3 and the warning still appears.

[sas2000]

 
I've made some tests with ß3 creating a 3.7Gb zip file and i have no problem/warning at all, maybe other forum user could help you.

Btw, are you compressing really big files or normal size ones ?.
 

[quantum]

Further testing shows the warning pops up at 4gb, even though the warning says >2gb.

[sas2000]

 
I've made one more test and i got a warning message, but only if one of the files that you're going to compress is bigger than 2Gb.

I'm sure that you know this , but is the destination disk of the Zip file NTFS ?.

Maybe Christian may create an entry on wincmd.ini to supress this warning message.
 

[quantum]

I'm using NTFS. My tests show the warning on any sized files as long as they add up to >4gb.

[sas2000]

My tests show the warning on any sized files as long as they add up to >4gb.

My first test was with a 3.7Gb Zip file, i've made a new one with more data and you're right a warning message appears.

So that there are at least two circumstances when warning messages appear.

- One of the files that you're going to compress is bigger than 2Gb.
- Any sized files as long as they add up to >4Gb.

I'm agree with you, this messages must be optional. Bye.
 

[Hacker]

[mod]Moved to TC 7 beta discussion forum.

Hacker (Moderator)[/mod]