Re: [gentoo-user] archiving

2007-01-05 Thread Richard Fish 

On 1/4/07, James Lockie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Compressing a folder doesn't work.

When I right click on a folder in konqueror and select compress, a
please wait  dialog opens and the progress bar just moves back and forth.
It is like it is in an infinite loop so end up cancelling.
I've tried zip and tar.bz2


Any error messages showing up in ~/.xsession-errors?  How much data is
in the folders?  Bzip2 at least will take a long time to compress...it
processes at 1-3MB/s on most systems.

-Richard
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[gentoo-user] archiving

2007-01-04 Thread James Lockie 

Compressing a folder doesn't work.

When I right click on a folder in konqueror and select compress, a 
please wait  dialog opens and the progress bar just moves back and forth.

It is like it is in an infinite loop so end up cancelling.
I've tried zip and tar.bz2
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Re: [gentoo-user] archiving

2007-01-04 Thread Randy Barlow 
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:47 -0500, James Lockie wrote:
 Compressing a folder doesn't work.
 
 When I right click on a folder in konqueror and select compress, a 
 please wait  dialog opens and the progress bar just moves back and forth.
 It is like it is in an infinite loop so end up cancelling.
 I've tried zip and tar.bz2

Have you tried compressing it from a shell using either tar or gzip, or
zip?

Randy Barlow
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Re: [gentoo-user] archiving

2007-01-04 Thread James Lockie 

Randy Barlow wrote:

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:47 -0500, James Lockie wrote:
  

Compressing a folder doesn't work.

When I right click on a folder in konqueror and select compress, a 
please wait  dialog opens and the progress bar just moves back and forth.

It is like it is in an infinite loop so end up cancelling.
I've tried zip and tar.bz2



Have you tried compressing it from a shell using either tar or gzip, or
zip?
  

I tried the same user, same file, same outpu place and it worked fine.
Something is wrong with KDE. :-(
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Re: [gentoo-user] archiving

2007-01-04 Thread Uwe Thiem 
On 05 January 2007 08:56, James Lockie wrote:
 Randy Barlow wrote:
  On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:47 -0500, James Lockie wrote:
  Compressing a folder doesn't work.
 
  When I right click on a folder in konqueror and select compress, a
  please wait  dialog opens and the progress bar just moves back and
  forth. It is like it is in an infinite loop so end up cancelling.
  I've tried zip and tar.bz2
 
  Have you tried compressing it from a shell using either tar or gzip, or
  zip?

 I tried the same user, same file, same outpu place and it worked fine.
 Something is wrong with KDE. :-(

Well, mine (3.5.5) doesn't do that.

Uwe

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