We are trying to copy a large installation package out to our clients so the end users can do the installation when possible. The issue is this is a pharmacy application installation on DVD with 1.1gb of folders and files. Everything we have tried has failed due to the 1000’s of images in one of the folders. We have tried compression with everything to specific levels but the uncompressing never works. Any ideas?
Frank Cruson
This can sometimes occur because the archive is being extracted at a directory level that is already pretty deep (c:\program files (x86)\bigfix enterprise…) and the additional directory levels in the archive itself exceed the Windows directory path limit.
Does your problem occur during extraction, or after extracting and during installation? In either case, you may have better luck creating a new top-level directory like c:\temp. 7-zip’s command-line driven “7za.exe” may help with that as Bigfix’s “extract” command doesn’t have much in the way of options.
I recall one case where the vendor’s media used directory depths right up to the maximum allowed level, and putting it under even a single directory level caused its installer to fail with “file not found” errors. If that’s the case, you could work around it with the SUBST command, to substitute a drive letter for a path. Ex.
SUBST B: C:\TEMP\EXTRACTION_PATH
then you can reference that path as B:\ as if it were a top-level drive.
And, by the way, if you’ve already created a directory path that you cannot remove because it exceeds the directory depth limit, I’ve found that Robocopy can remove it, via
robocopy c:\empty c:\long\bad\path /MIRE
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You can specify a different target location for the extraction with the built in extract command, but if that does not work, then I would recommend using 7zip like @JasonWalker recommended.
1.1gb is not too large, we deploy many larger applications using the normal extract command, but very large applications (over 10gb) are often done in chunks using 7zips chunking, downloading through IEM, then extracting using 7za.exe
Great idea! We used 7zip to compress the data down to 500mb. Once the data is on the client system using 7zip and a batch file to uncompress worked great!
Thanks!
Frank Cruson
Here are some examples of Fixlets/Tasks that I am using 7zip in:
http://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/3896
http://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/3925
http://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/3940
http://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/3827
http://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/3895
Also, I would strongly recommend using “C:\Windows\Temp” whenever the usual bes site download folder doesn’t work. This is a location that you can rely on already existing on the system, and it is a well known spot to do temp work in that it is considered safe to clear out periodically. Plus if a system is running low on free space, tools like CCleaner will handle this location automatically.
Excuse me sir, i seems that you know quite a lot about DVD problems. Here I have a problem would you mind. Recently I download this DVD compressing software (http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/tips/dvd-compressing.html) as you can see. It says it is able to decrypted encrypted DVDs and compress them to a much smaller size. I applied it to one of mine, the conversion was successful. But the output video had no sound only images ( although the images were pretty clear). I wonder whether it is caused by the so called 10X acceleration which leads to the conten loss? Do you know how to deal with this problem?