Extract command

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(imported topic written by Bjowah91)

Hi,

I discovered a thing that I find very odd with the Extract command.

If you run the deåployment wizard and select to deploy a folder like I386$OEM$ a bigXXX.tmp file is created.

When you extract this on the client the path is not intact instead the the content of $oem$ is extracted ($$,$1)

This is awfully annoying when you later want to copy the files to another location.

Is there a reason for this or is it an area of improvement. :wink:

/Björn

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi Bjorn,

We just tried it and it seemed to work… I am not sure why it doesn’t work for you… do you see it all the time?

Ben

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(imported comment written by Bjowah91)

Hi Ben,

Yes I do. I tried the folder structure of the qna tool. with this action script

download http://lidtsrv009.line.stenanet.com:52311/Uploads/ca87e53fd4d65eb0d709e85e334fd2924230da5a/big71.tmp

continue if { (size of it = 1496398 and sha1 of it = “ca87e53fd4d65eb0d709e85e334fd2924230da5a”) of file “big71.tmp” of folder “__Download”}

extract big71.tmp

When I now look into c:\Program Files\BigFix Enterprise\BES Client__BESData\actionsite__Download I see all the files and folders of of the qna folder instead of the folder qna-6.0.5.13 which was the folder I pointed out.

/Björn

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

I think the problem is when you point to a directory to compress, it assumes you want all the files, but

not the folder itself

. You would need to create a new folder and put your desired folder in it, then target the parent folder for the deployment wizard.

For example, if you have a folder called “MyFiles”, you would need to create a folder like “ParentFolder” and move “MyFiles” folder in to it. Then in the deployment wizard, target the “ParentFolder” folder instead of the “MyFiles” folder and be sure to check “Include Subfolders”.

The other option is to just create the desired target directory on the client and then individualy move the files from __Download to the target. I tend to do that more often then not, but it depends on the number of files, of course.

Jim

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(imported comment written by Bjowah91)

Jnharry, you’re right I’ll have to create a dummy parent folder. perhpa this should be moved to the improvement forum.

/Björn