Has anyone got any ideas as to how revolution could compress the files and subfolders of a folder?
Hi Thomas,
Richard Gaskin, Sarah Richert, yours truly, and others have gotten as far as you; but no one I know of has taken the next step: combining individual file compression logic with the recursive logic of the Transcript Directory Walker. Sarah & I have done some preliminary work to combine her drag-and-drop compression utility, SDB Tools compression utility (which, besides simple compression, includes logic to default the file type of Windows & Unix stacks for seamless transfer to Mac O/S platforms, and prevent the user from decompressing a file with a Mac O/S resource fork on a non-Mac platform); but it's a VERY low priority for both of us at the moment.
The design I have in mind would create a list of all files & their folder locations via a tweaked Directory Walker command, compress each file individually, append the individual compressed files, and append an index of the archive listing each file's size & byte offset from the beginning of the archive file.
Simple decompression would simply decompress the entire contents of the folder. A more elegant solution would display the archive index and allow the user to select individual files for decompression
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