Re: [compress] 7z and Recovering Corrupt Archives

2021-06-06 Thread Peter Lee
+1 for the new option. A fast fail for corrupted archive could help a lot. Lee On 6 5 2021, at 4:32, Gary Gregory wrote: > In general, I think fail fast is ok with a clear exception message. > > Gary > On Fri, Jun 4, 2021, 15:44 Stefan Bodewig wrote: > > Hi all > > > > 7z archives provide CRCs

Re: [compress] 7z and Recovering Corrupt Archives

2021-06-04 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Von: Gary Gregory Gesendet: Friday, June 4, 2021 10:32:22 PM An: Commons Developers List Betreff: Re: [compress] 7z and Recovering Corrupt Archives In general, I think fail fast is ok with a clear exception message. Gary On Fri, Jun 4, 2021, 15:44 Stefan Bodewig wrote: > Hi all > > 7z

Re: [compress] 7z and Recovering Corrupt Archives

2021-06-04 Thread Gary Gregory
In general, I think fail fast is ok with a clear exception message. Gary On Fri, Jun 4, 2021, 15:44 Stefan Bodewig wrote: > Hi all > > 7z archives provide CRCs for the metadata section so you can quickly > identify a wide range of broken archives - which is far better than what > you get for

[compress] 7z and Recovering Corrupt Archives

2021-06-04 Thread Stefan Bodewig
Hi all 7z archives provide CRCs for the metadata section so you can quickly identify a wide range of broken archives - which is far better than what you get for ZIP for example. It is possible to recover from a certain type of broken archive. A case where the archive has been written almost