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  folder compression issue Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2022-02-01 18:10 +0100
    Re: folder compression issue Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> - 2022-02-01 18:20 +0100
      Re: folder compression issue Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> - 2022-02-01 18:30 +0100
        IGNORE Re: folder compression issue Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2022-02-01 19:40 +0100

#244916 — folder compression issue

I am using Debian Mate with the GUI.

in Caja file manager, right click on the desired folder.
"Compress" is displayed on a list of options.
default is .tar.gz format

this works fine, I do it regularly ... mostly big folders, ~11.4 GB and 
~2,400 items.

now I am following the same method with a 389.3 MB folder, and 305 items.
at about 2/3 thru the process I get a popup "An error occurred while 
adding files to the archive."

there is tons of disk space, huge RAM, and my 10 GB Swap partition is 
nearly empty.

I have copied that same folder to various locations, tried it with 
Stable and SID and even Linux Mint. Same problem. It seems to be unique 
to this folder, or something in it.

Ideas?

should I file a bug report?

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#244919

On 2022-02-01 12:04, Peter Ehlert wrote:
> Ideas?

If you want to debug, do a binary search.

Move out half the files and try to compress again until it works. And 
then add back half the files until it fails.

> should I file a bug report?

Sure.

Since there's not too many files you can include the output of:

find | xargs stat

Run from that directory in your bug report. That should give the names, 
permissions, etc of all files and directories.

There might be a permission issue or a filename issue.

Bijan

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#244921

On 2022-02-01 12:17, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> find | xargs stat

Oops that might not work if there are spaces in the filenames/directories.

You can do:
find -print0 | xargs -0 stat

In that case.

Bijan

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#244927 — IGNORE Re: folder compression issue

Thanks for the ideas. I got anxious, compressed the Folders 
individually, then the files into a separate Zip.

I deleted the problem folder... not elegant, not solved.

On 2/1/22 09:20, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On 2022-02-01 12:17, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
>> find | xargs stat
>
> Oops that might not work if there are spaces in the 
> filenames/directories.
>
> You can do:
> find -print0 | xargs -0 stat
>
> In that case.
>
> Bijan
>
>

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