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From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] archiving
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:16:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640701050916i25ae3202j4c836d9488f23a4d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <459DBC24.2040602@lockie.ca>

On 1/4/07, James Lockie <bjlockie@lockie.ca> 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

Any error messages showing up in ~/.xsession-errors?  How much data is
in the folders?  Bzip2 at least will take a long time to compress...it
processes at 1-3MB/s on most systems.

-Richard
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-05 17:23 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
2007-01-05  6:56   ` James Lockie
2007-01-05  7:34     ` Uwe Thiem
2007-01-05 17:16 ` Richard Fish [this message]

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