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Death's Avatar wrote:

Not as cool as 200,000,000,000 bytes maybe, but I was still proud when i did it.

-DA

VOLVO POWER!

For the geeks in the audience:

We broke the 200 GiB barrier sometime yesterday (I was out of town so missed it). We're now at 216,433,209,892 bytes and counting (someone downloaded a coule of BIGZIP's to break the barrier).


Heh -- just remembered another "odometer memory" -- watching my Dad's Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser (with a 455 V-8 -- a MONSTER that I GOT TO DRIVE A LOT) odometer break 100,000 and then 200,000 miles.

Funny how the numbers were kinda skewed for awhile like they didn't really like turning all at once.

Baak, did you create those "big zips" in 7-zip? It can cut down the size by about 10% with the highest settings. See: http://tain.totalcodex.net/forum/viewto ... =14&t=3987

Eddaweaver wrote:Baak, did you create those "big zips" in 7-zip? It can cut down the size by about 10% with the highest settings. See: http://tain.totalcodex.net/forum/viewto ... =14&t=3987

I didn't do the regular .zip files using 7-zip because some people had problems unzipping those (particularly from the Mac).

What I did instead is make completely separate 7-zip files (.7z extension) so people could get them really compressed if desired. There's a separate ".7z MB" column with values in parens (e.g. the OoH BIGZIP 7z file is: "(301.5)"). Clicking on the links with values in parens will start a separate 7-zip download. Click on the ".7z MB" column header and you'll see all the ones I did in that format.

Don't compress with Deflate64, use Deflate. Older archiving applications can't open zips which don't use standard Deflate.

Eddaweaver wrote:Don't compress with Deflate64, use Deflate. Older archiving applications can't open zips which don't use standard Deflate.

That was the equation!

Makes sense. But not enough incentive for me to rezip for a 10% gain. Realistically, if someone is going to download 400MB, they can afford the extra 40MB; whereas it's a lot of extra work for me to set up scripts differently and change something that's already working.




BTW: Have you used a good 7z unzipper on the Mac? I've only done the PC and then I managed to get a Linux version working (after some tedious reading of the manual to get it to behave on my web host). I stopped looking for a Mac version awhile back and just wondering if you've encountered one?

The Unarchiver can handle 7z, as well as like 100 other formats on Mac OS X. And it's free software.

Myrd wrote:The Unarchiver can handle 7z, as well as like 100 other formats on Mac OS X. And it's free software.

I figured Mac's could handle it -- just didn't see any references on the 7-zip site for Macs -- so that really solves the problem of shrinking the size by offering a much smaller download (in some cases).

For example, the OoH BIGZIP is 427.9 MB as a zip but only 301.5 MB as a 7-zip.

not sure what versions of OS X it runs on or if it's an Intel only app, but there's a 7Z decompresser that runs in OS X called 'EZ 7Z' which seems to work ok.

BetterZip can also handle .7z files, and also a lot of other formats. It's shareware but invaluable if you work with a lot of archive files, I think it even handles all the stuffit formats too.