Re: Problem with Archiving .tar

Richard wrote:

On Wednesday 31 October 2007 12:12:13 am Chris Lemire wrote:
Richard: I'm sorry I can't help, but I _can_ say that on my (gutsy) kde
desktop, I can still right click on a folder and get a "Compress" context
menu. That menu contains "Compress as FILENAME.tar.gz"; "Compress as "
(with a submenu for all the compression types supported by Ark); "Add to"
(presumably a most-recently-used list of archives created by this tool);
and "Add to archive...". As far as I can see, these work.

Sorry, Derek it does not work,
Yes, I too, am using kubuntu 7.10,
Have been trying to archive, using .tar only, on a 1.7GB folder, in the
home directory, the action is in the contextual menu for archive (just
select) .tar I notice it does work on smaller files size, say 650MB, but
try 8-9 times on the folder in the home directory, and its just hangs.

Ah. Well, I can't say I've _ever_ tried to compress files that large...

that is why I posted the problem in the first place... I don't know why a
couple of you, don't understand that, and want to flame the command line
as a reply to the problem. instead of trying to figure out what's causing
the problem.

Now that you tell us it only happens with large files, I'd have to suggest
that you _must_ try it with the command line first. The gui is just a
front end, and really shouldn't cause problems in itself, so I'd be willing
to bet that you'll run into the same problem using tar in the CLI.
--
derek


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