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7zip vs. lha
« on: September 29, 2011, 05:28:17 PM »
I had this problem last week but I forgot to paste my notes to the forum.

I am backing up my Amiga hard drive by making lha archives of each partition and then copying over Ethernet to my slave bgcpc.


 Original was:           555,403,364 bytes  42,727 files  1549 dirs 1152925 blocks used
 I lhaed the files and copied over to pc
 After 7zip extract was: 552,818,263 bytes  42,731 files  1534 folders

Ok I can explain that the dirs went down from 1549 to 1534 by assuming that 7zip prob has the same bug that ALL GUI lha archivers have: They never decompress empty dirs!  GRRRRRR

But the number of FILES went UP.  7zip created me 4 new files that I never had b4.  Wow!  I wonder if it can write code for me too?

While I was unzipping, 7zip produced from very bizarre errors: it kept extracting nonexistant files with the same name as the archive.  These files were around 700K each.  The REAL files were smaller and had real, normal names and were associated with A500 TC Jospels/Tools/ (Jospels is where my bro put his gfx)
So it did this 4 times.  I thought since 4 files overwrote each other that I would be MISSING 4 files, not GAIN 4 files.  Man this is weird!!!!

Like if I named the archive blah.lha then it would extra 4 files named blah.  So I renamed the archive to a.lha then it extracted 4 files named a.  This just totally blew my mind.
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Re: 7zip vs. lha
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2011, 07:08:02 PM »
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do not use 7zip or zip or ace to backup amiga files
I didn't.  I made the archive with lha.
But I wanted to see if the archive survived the transfer thru my ancient Ethernet card to my bgcPC so I test extracted the files using 7zip.
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Re: 7zip vs. lha
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2011, 08:00:51 PM »
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Is the software set to break the archived file into 700KB chunks  (i.e to fit on a 720K PC floppy) for some reason?
I don't know anything about that.  I don't understand what software you are talking about.  The .lha archive was 333MB
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