reference: http://www.sciforums.com/threads/project-gutenberg.84252/#post-3231299 it's been 13 hours and i am still decompressing this fie with 7 zip. is this normal? is there a faster "unzipper"?
Sounds to me you are using a Computer that's only using a single threaded process to deal with the compression or the operating system has placed 7-zip into a background operation. While it's background it will run with a lesser priority since the foreground is the priority (you accessing the computer etc) You could try CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up the Task Manager, finding the active process and increasing it's priority (however it could impact how your system functions or even crash part way through what it's already done.) You should also check the options of 7-Zip you might be able to increase the size of the memory paging etc. It's also possible that Older versions of 7-Zip aren't multicore, so you'd need the most recent version to take advantage of more than 2 cores.
i bought the computer used, so i don't even know if i have the right drivers for the MOBO. it has always been slow at doing certain things, but it plays my DOOM really well. i guess i just have to suffer through it. can i cancel the 7 zip and keep what has been decompressed? it's 92% done, and by the way it's going i'll be here tomorrow. i can't minimize the app, and it's covering icons i need.
Like I said you could increase the processes "Priority" level, just don't push it all the way up to realtime or you might botch it. That should bring it to the foreground and speed it up a little. (you'll just have to leave the computer doing it after that)
when i try to access the files, it crashes windows explorer (it stops responding). there are 903,335 files in one folder and takes up 10.7 gig on my HDD. i can right click and get the property sheet, but left clicking hangs win explorer. win XP SP2
That's a lot of File handles which might cause the crash, try accessing the folder with command line (CMD)
running cmd from the start menu run dialog: h: 'drive with files cd jstor ejc 'directory with the bundled files, also saved packed file here. cd bundle ' directory with decompressed files. dir ' hangs the computer
Boot Linux from a flash drive, mount your NTFS drive read-only, and see if you can read it then. You're probably choking XP on I/O, considering all the file descriptors that go along with the physical files.
i have a 500MB USB drive, but it doesn't have linux (or anything else) on it. i would have to find a linux distro and install it. surely jstor is aware of this type of problem. i would much rather download three 4gig DVDs than to go through this BS.
Jstor probably expects people that download that big a chunk to have the means to deal with it, and you do have an ancient computer... Good luck. Edit: I have a terabyte free, so I might download the thing and have a look m'self. Edit again: I looked. I don't want to fool with badly OCR'd stuff from the '20s, so never mind. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
i think it's because my machine isn't configured properly or i don't have the right MOBO drivers. the BIOS might not be set right. i'm a download junkie.
Furthermore you could try "dir >> C:\temp\dirlist.txt" That will create the output of a dir command into a dirlist.txt file located in the temp directory on drive C (if you have one) You can then use a wordpad or notepad++ (not notepad standard) to view the list of file names. When you want to access a specific file you'll have to access it via it's full location rather than the whole folder.
Meh.. it might not be any of the above. Leopold is the folder on a FAT32 drive or an NTFS one? Apparently FAT32 can only handle up to 64k file/folder handles where as NTFS was apparently limitless. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4944709/windows-limit-on-no-of-files-in-a-particular-folder
yes. system comes back with volume name and command prompt no files are listed. win explorer property sheet says the files are there.
i don't know why this happened: i did the dir /w like i said, but i didn't close the cmd box. i got busy with something else, came back and discovered a dos file listing. there is a readme.txt file. double clicking the file doesn't open it. also, DOS reports only half the files windows does.
how am i going to access these files? edit: found this a few minutes ago: https://social.technet.microsoft.co...many-files-in-one-folder?forum=winserverfiles
