In case anyone is interested, here is the one I am using, which does zero compression and uses a zip file so it can be opened in Windows Explorer , and includes the contents of the folder rather than the folder itself thank you theclubpenguineherald! Any help would be appreciated.
Do you mean you want to combine all of the 7z files into an exe file? You could include something like this in your script:. This is a great article! Also you can put your 7zip command line utility at a different pat as well. I have over a million of files about GB of data and I would like to back them up to the cloud on a daily basis.
The fact that there are so many files it makes it impossible and I was looking for a solution where I compress each folder to an individual file before uploading. I found this script that I use it successfully to do so. But there are 2 considerations. Update the archive ONLY when there are file changes inside the directory new files, updated files, and deleted files. I would like the output file NOT to change date of creation if there are no file changes inside the directory.
Hi Peter. I think your requirements might require a more complicated script or an alternative like rsync or whatever a Windows equivalent of that. Hey, James. Hopefully, you are still replying to messages here. I was wondering if there was a way to 7z all contents of each folder into an archive without including the folder itself.
For example, I have temp1, temp2, temp3 etc folders each with files in it. Is this possible? I should specify I want the contents of each folder zipped individually into separate archives just like your original script only without the folder included in each archive. Hi Mike. I am basing this on the answer found here which just pulls from the manual itself!
Looking at that site, there are slight differences when excluding the subdir prefix there. It has it like. I just tried it and it works! Thanks for the help! You have to write it like. At this moment my head start spinning.
You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. Navigate to it and click 'Test Archive. How can I zip only certain file types e. Yes No. Not Helpful 11 Helpful Spaces in the folder names did not cause any issues for me. Test it out on a few practice folders and you should be able to tell if there are any issues. Not Helpful 1 Helpful 0. Yes; after the command, add the -p switch and then the password with no spaces between i.
Add -mhe on the end of that to encrypt the headers, which that means that whoever opens the zipped archive will have to provide a password to view its contents. Not Helpful 3 Helpful 4. Edit the. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 1. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Changing the code in Notepad so that the resulting file extension is. Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. Keep your batch file for future use.
DO NOT run as administrator. Just double-click from within target folder will do the job. If 7-zip is installed somewhere else in your system, find its location and replace it in the code. You can use the batch file to compress any folder, not just music folders. You can name the. After that to use, In Windows 7 and 8. Clicking that will open a command line window for the current folder. Then just type the 7z-all no need for the. Submit a Tip All tip submissions are carefully reviewed before being published.
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