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General Software Discussion / Re: Recreate files but without content to target drive

« Last post by lastgasp on February 29, 2012, 05:39 PM »

Thank you everything works great now!  I dropped 10 bucks in your tip jar at paypal.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recreate files but without content to target drive

« Last post by lastgasp on February 26, 2012, 12:33 AM »

I found a file displayed in Windows Explorer as "Rubйn Gonzбlez"  that is also skipped by zero zipper in the temp.zip.  "Rubйn Gonzбlez" should be "Rubén González" and when I correct the misspelling in Windows Explorer Zero Zipper includes it in the temp.zip with no problems.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recreate files but without content to target drive

« Last post by lastgasp on February 25, 2012, 10:11 PM »

The temp.zip is working correctly now.  But I found that sometimes the file count inside the temp.zip was wrong.  Some files were still being omitted from the temp.zip. This was a mystery that I wanted to solve so I tested many folders.  Customizing the temp folder location eliminated file name length as a problem. Using Windows 7 windows explorer I found files with question marks inside of a black diamond instead of a recognizable character\number.   I searched "question mark inside of a black diamond" and I found something called a Unicode Character 'REPLACEMENT CHARACTER' .

wikipedia entry is here http://en.wikipedia....eplacement_character

I mostly use a Windows Xp machine so it took a while to figure it out.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recreate files but without content to target drive

« Last post by lastgasp on February 23, 2012, 07:50 PM »

Besides "leave blank for default" I has used a couple of dozen variations including root drives.  I have tried putting temp folder on usb flash, ssd sata, and in windows 7 a RAM disk.  Except for "leave blank for default" option all produce an empty temp.zip.  I have tried changing the name from temp.zip to other names.  I have tried to put the destination zip in various places with no luck.

I have opened the the 1kb temp.zip in notepad and get this some that looks like this  PK |-   not exactly though because I ca't get the last 2 characters to copy and paste.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recreate files but without content to target drive

« Last post by lastgasp on February 23, 2012, 12:39 PM »

The customisable temp folder setting works but strangely the resulting temp.zip is always empty!  I tried different settings on four computers all resulting in an empty temp.zip.  The only exception is if I leave the temp folder setting blank\default then it creates the temp.zip correctly.  But of course this temp.zip does not contain all the files because of the 255 limit.   

BTW thanks for "Files 2 Folder" I love that!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recreate files but without content to target drive

« Last post by lastgasp on February 20, 2012, 12:18 PM »

I changed the temp file as suggested and got a much better result.  Sadly I still lost some files.  The temp folder looks like this "C:\TEMP\$$$$$20120220122310_ZeroZipper_temp" .  Various test with zero zipper seem to confirm that the problem is the 255 limit.  Perhaps if "C:\TEMP\$$$$$20120220122310_ZeroZipper_temp" could be shorten to something like "C:\TEMP\Zero_temp" or even shorter it would would not skip any files.

Also I would like to use Zero Zipper on other peoples computers and would not be comfortable changing their temp file location folder.  I feel like I'm asking too much but if Zero Zipper could be revised to deal with my issues it would very much change my life.  I took a USB flash drive and formatted it to NTFS which allows Everything for Windows from voidtools.com to read the USN Journal and thus created a "dummy drive". I'm hoping to put several "dummy drives" on a single USB flash drive.  Since both Everything for Windows and Zero Zipper are portable I dream of having a complete catalog of all my drive in one USB flash.

thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recreate files but without content to target drive

« Last post by lastgasp on February 20, 2012, 03:03 AM »

I have been looking for something like Zero zipper for a long time.  My goal being to create catalogs of offline drives\folders (including files!) without needing any special software to read the "catalog" - just any filemanager.   I have run into a problem though where sometimes a few dummy files are not included in the zip.  I think the problem is the 255 character limit in Windows.  Since Zero Zipper uses in my case "C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp\$$$$$20120220035412_ZeroZipper_temp".

Could you add an option so I can choose a temp folder located on the C root drive?

thank you!