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From: Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] archiving
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:51:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1167976304.26824.36.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <459DBC24.2040602@lockie.ca>

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:47 -0500, James Lockie wrote:
> Compressing a folder doesn't work.
> 
> When I right click on a folder in konqueror and select compress, a 
> "please wait"  dialog opens and the progress bar just moves back and forth.
> It is like it is in an infinite loop so end up cancelling.
> I've tried zip and tar.bz2

Have you tried compressing it from a shell using either tar or gzip, or
zip?

Randy Barlow
http://www.electronsweatshop.com
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-05  5:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-05  2:47 [gentoo-user] archiving James Lockie
2007-01-05  5:51 ` Randy Barlow [this message]
2007-01-05  6:56   ` James Lockie
2007-01-05  7:34     ` Uwe Thiem
2007-01-05 17:16 ` Richard Fish

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