I notice in Nautilus file manager, if I right click on a directory, I can 'compress' that file or directory. clicking this provides options for different compression formats, but how do I know which one to use?Most of my files are data files, ie text. Though I do have photo/image folders and a music folde
View 6 Repliesi have about 22 gb of music (mp3 & ogg) on my laptop harddrive.i also have an unused sony mp3 player with a 20 gb hard drive.what i want to do is back up the 22gb into a 20 gb space the music does not need to be playable on the sony player...just using it as a back up device.ok...2 issues:1. when i've tried compressing (tar.gz) mp3 files, little to no space is saved, i assume that a mp3 is pretty compressed already.is there another way to compress effectively ? i dont want to reduce bit rates of the individual music tracks.2. i formatted the sony hd using ext4, but this leaves me with only 16 gb usable space. tried fat32 and this left me with about 18gb.
View 6 Replies View Relatedhy I can't make a 7z archive with file roller? I have already installed p7zip, p7zip-plugins, and 7za. I don't understand what the problem is. I can make a 7z archive from the command line with no problems. I keep getting this message but it doesn't tell me what the error is. Quote:An error occurred while adding files to the archive.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI downloaded a file that was 40mb compressed and was almost 700mb when fully extracted. It was inside a .rar file that in turn was inside another .rar file. How can this be done in Ubuntu? Can this also be done with .zip and .7z files?
View 2 Replies View Relatedmy school we want to print a magazine but we have problem with the format of the files. We need to create a sheet in A3 format from two sheets in A4 format. I was reading about the pdftk library but it doesn't do what i need.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to back up my /home/username folder for the purposes of a clean install. I'm attempting to compress the folder to fit onto my flash drive and am running into problems. Regardless of where I try to put the compression, or what compression algorithm I try, they all give me the error "no such file or directory" and that's all the computer will tell me. Currently I've tried the tar.gz and tar.bz2 algorithms and have tried compressing to //, /home/, and /tmp/.
Am running Ubuntu 10.04
You right click on a file and choose Compress. How do you select the compression level for algorithms that support different levels? If you can't, what compression level does it use?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI was installing DYMOUM from [url]. "make" command is issuing this error:
Code:
Prior to this, ns-2.34 was working fine. Patches are applied very well.
I am in under fedora 9 and:
Code:
I have a PDF File here with upright ("portrait" format) pages, and I want to convert it so that each page gets "split" in the middle and becomes two wide ("landscape" format) pages.
Something like "print multiple pages on one page", only reversed
Is there any way to do such a thing with CUPS or something?
I have the source file ONLY in PDF Format
I'm having some problem converting an mpg file to avi. I did it with mencoder. The result was an avi file as I wanted but the image was like stretched vertically. Like this:
(The avi is on the left)
What can I do to convert it without the stretching?
I have received a file in CDF V2 format (.pub file extension).
Is there any software available to read this file in Linux (Ubuntu)?
I am having a desktop motherboard of D31 model. In this i tried to load the RHEL4.2 but the required ahci driver is not there. So if anyone could specify me like whichfile-format file to be used while installing Linux OS, using the option boot:linux dd.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a new external 500gb drive I want to format and put data on. I first formatted it as Fat32 as I'd like to access it with Windows at some point. I ended up having a few files over 4gb, so that didn't work.
I'd like to use UDF as the file format. Does anyone see any issues with formatting a 500GB drive with UDF? I don't see any reason why I would want to WRITE to the drive in Windows, just read...but there is software out there to allow Windows XP to write to a UDF drive if I needed to.
Is there a file system that both Mac OSX 10.5 and linux can read/write for large files (like 4gb files)? My desktop is Ubuntu and I run most from there, but I want to back up my MacBook and linux box on the same external hard drive. Seems there are some (paid) apps for Mac that will mount NTFS but I'm wondering if there is just a shared files ystem that will work for both.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am presently running Firefox version 3.6.13 under Ubuntu 10.10 and I am trying without any success to play a file in Windows format.I have removed the totem-mozilla pluginI have re-installed gnome-mplayer & gecko-mediaplayer plugins. The ads-on is saying that Gecko Media Player 0.9.9.2 Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using Mplayer is installed.Also try to stream a MMSH to 127.0.0.1:8080 using ASF/WMV, DIVX3 & MP3 from VLC and the only thing I could get from Firefox was: Could not demultiplex streamCan somebody confirm me that the gnome-mplayer& gecko-mediaplayer plugins are capable of reading ASF format
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI am working on a project where I am dialing out of a modem!! Old stuff, ya, but the modem allows my device send info from remote sites from my datibase through a phone line so that this IT departments dont have to worry my device being a security issue on their networks.
Any way, the modem I'm using isn't incredibly well designed, and when a certain ascii char is read by the modem, it reads it as an EOF indicator. It is also important that the files I send are compressed.
My question is: Does anyone know of a compression format that allows ME to dissallow IT's use of certain ascii chars?
just as an illustration:
Device --------> Modem ---------> Off-site
and the Modem stops talking to the device when a certain char is passed to it.
How to deal with file not recognized: File format not recognized
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to scan in a file which has the format of
Quote:
username:password
hello:world
right now my program says
Code:
Scanner fin = null;
try
{
fin = new Scanner(new FileReader("proj1/passwd.txt"));
[Code]...
How do i correctly use delimiter to take in only the strings on one line?
I have just installed Free Arc utility for compression from : [URL] and it works smoothly but in command Line mode.
Commands:
a add files to archive
c add comment to archive
ch modify archive (recompress, encrypt and so on)
create create new archive
cw write archive comment to file
d delete files from archive
e extract files from archive ignoring pathnames
f freshen archive
j join archives
k lock archive
l list files in archive
lb bare list of files in archive
lt technical archive listing
m move files and dirs to archive
mf move files to archive
r recover archive using recovery record
rr add recovery record to archive
s convert archive to SFX
t test archive integrity
u update files in archive
v verbosely list files in archive
x extract files from archive
Options:
-- stop processing options
-ad --adddir add arcname to extraction path
-aeALGORITHM --encryption=ALGORITHM encryption ALGORITHM (aes, blowfish, serpent, twofish)
-agFMT --autogenerate=FMT autogenerate archive name with FMT
-apDIR --arcpath=DIR base DIR in archive
-baMODE --BrokenArchive=MODE deal with badly broken archive using MODE
-cfgFILE --config=FILE use config FILE (default: arc.ini)
-d --delete delete files & dirs after successful archiving
-df --delfiles delete only files after successful archiving
-diAMOUNT --display=AMOUNT control AMOUNT of information displayed: [hoacmnwrfdtske]*
-dmMETHOD --dirmethod=METHOD compression METHOD for archive directory
-dpDIR --diskpath=DIR base DIR on disk
-dsORDER --sort=ORDER sort files in ORDER
-ed --nodirs don't add empty dirs to archive
-envVAR read default options from environment VAR (default: FREEARC)
-epMODE --ExcludePath=MODE Exclude/expand path MODE
-f --freshen freshen files
-fn --fullnames match with full names
-hpPASSWORD --HeadersPassword=PASSWORD encrypt/decrypt archive headers and data using PASSWORD
-iTYPE --indicator=TYPE select progress indicator TYPE (0/1/2)
-ioff --shutdown shutdown computer when operation completed
-k --lock lock archive
-kb --keepbroken keep broken extracted files
-kfKEYFILE --keyfile=KEYFILE encrypt/decrypt using KEYFILE
-lcN --LimitCompMem=N limit memory usage for compression to N mbytes
-ldN --LimitDecompMem=N limit memory usage for decompression to N mbytes
-mMETHOD --method=METHOD compression METHOD (-m0..-m9, -m1x..-m9x)
-maLEVEL set filetype detection LEVEL (+/-/1..9)
-max maximum compression using external precomp, ecm, .....
I would like to get one software using which we can converto file format to another. Like .mkv to .mpg and .avi to mpg or .3gp to .avi . converting one to another.The other software I need is about ripping and editing mp3.From DVD video or VCD format, i would like to extract only audio mp3 files and i would like to cut some unwanted portion of those mp3 files.Which software do I need? I dont want to install Ubuntu studio
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View 2 Replies View Relatedso here's what i want to do. I have a harddrive with Ubuntu 10.04 on it, the biggest partition is a 242gb ext3 partition. I want to format a part of that to FAT, without loosing any data from the hard drive.Is this possible?
View 4 Replies View RelatedLast night I had to re-install Ubuntu. Previously, the header of the file manager had been configured up with the three buttons on the right for icon/list/compact view (see 1st image below), whilst since re-installing, they appear with the drop-down menu instead (as per the 2nd image). How do you change between these two formats? My preference is for the first of these.
View 2 Replies View RelatedInstalled Ubuntu 10.10 and it works very well except I cant format cd or dvds. I am using the disk utility program in administration and keep getting the following error:
Error creating file system: helper exited with exit code 1: Error calling fsync(2) on /dev/sr0: Input/output error
I have tried mounting and unmounting - makes no difference.
some reason it seems like the lowest it goes is ~64kbps (~ implying variable bitrate).So yeah, any thing that'll let me do the compression limbo better? (How low can you go? ) A different program? Unlock bonus stage? What
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to rip all my CDs to flac at the lowest compression (space is not an issue) via Banshee. I have tried a few tracks but the seem to be ripped at a higher compression to the ones I have done via sound juicer (set at compression 0)
How do I adjust the flac settings in Banshee to do this? The option to edit the settings is not available for flac? I guess there is a config file somewhere?