IGNORE Re: folder compression issue

2022-02-01 Thread Peter Ehlert
Thanks for the ideas. I got anxious, compressed the Folders individually, then the files into a separate Zip. I deleted the problem folder... not elegant, not solved. On 2/1/22 09:20, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-02-01 12:17, Bijan Soleymani wrote: find | xargs stat Oops that might not wo

Re: folder compression issue

2022-02-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-01 12:17, Bijan Soleymani wrote: find | xargs stat Oops that might not work if there are spaces in the filenames/directories. You can do: find -print0 | xargs -0 stat In that case. Bijan

Re: folder compression issue

2022-02-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-01 12:04, Peter Ehlert wrote: Ideas? If you want to debug, do a binary search. Move out half the files and try to compress again until it works. And then add back half the files until it fails. should I file a bug report? Sure. Since there's not too many files you can include

folder compression issue

2022-02-01 Thread Peter Ehlert
I am using Debian Mate with the GUI. in Caja file manager, right click on the desired folder. "Compress" is displayed on a list of options. default is .tar.gz format this works fine, I do it regularly ... mostly big folders, ~11.4 GB and ~2,400 items. now I am following the same method with