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Recreate files but without content to target drive
lastgasp:
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!
skwire:
What are you using for the temp folder value?
lastgasp:
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.
skwire:
Try this build, please: Zero Zipper v1.0.5.5
lastgasp:
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.org/wiki/Unicode_Specials#Replacement_character
I mostly use a Windows Xp machine so it took a while to figure it out.
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