Questions tagged [archive]

A location or file that stores other files or data, normally accompanied by compression, encryption, sorting or organizing.

An archive is a place that you can store files or other data for storage or for sorting.

Archives can be a number of things such as a Database or a Zip or Cab file.

Normally the archive that you place the files or data into, gives you some sort of functionality such as encryption, compression or data querying functionality.

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What's the difference between object file and static library(archive file)?

Seems archive file can be generated from object file: ar rvs libprofile.a profile.o What's the difference between object file and archive file? It seems to me that both can be used with gcc directly,e.g.: gcc *.c profile.o or gcc *.c…
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Read skype message archive

I would like to read my skype message archive outside of the Skype app. And be able to export it in some sort (other than copy-paste it from my messages) as far i can figure skype only provides 30 days or archives. Any one out there using an app for…
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Archive does not appear in xcode4 organizer

I am trying to submit an app to iTunes using the new xcode4. I followed the apple instructions but after doing product> archive, I still do not see anything in my organizer. Can anyone help?
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Xcode 4 target build setting "Skip install". What is it?

The tile basically says it all. I'm developing a mac app which has the normal app target, but also has two more command-line tool targets whose products are copied to the app when building. I remember seeing somewhere that the "Skip install" was…
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Recover old website off waybackmachine

Is there a way to recover an entire website from the waybackmachine? I have an old site that is archived but no longer have the website files to revive it again. Is there a way to recover the old data so I can get my long lost files back?
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How to strip path while archiving with TAR

I have a file that contain list of files I want to archive with tar. Let's call it mylist.txt It contains: /path1/path2/file1.txt /path1/path2/file3.txt ... /path1/path2/file10.txt What I want to do is to archive this file into a tarball but…
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XCode 4: Archive is using old project name

I have renamed my project successfully. However, when I create an archive (I'm ready to upload it to the store), Organizer is showing the archive named with the OLD project name. In fact I have renamed this project twice! And it is showing the…
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Xcode 7.1 hangs while archiving swift ios app

Xcode 7.1 while archiving app, hangs at 'Copying Swift standard libraries'. Any idea why?
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Create .ipa for iPhone

I developed one application for iPhone. After I build I got .app file in build folder. My application name is Myapp, then i got Myapp.app file in the build folder. My problem is i want to create the .ipa file. how is that.. it is for to install…
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File pattern '*.apk' (from 'bundled' plugin) was reassigned to file type 'APK' by 'Android' plugin

Suddenly android studio showed this message. What is that I must do? It is showing: File pattern '*.apk' (from 'bundled' plugin) was reassigned to file type 'APK' by 'Android' plugin You can confirm or revert reassigning pattern '*.apk' and gives…
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Xcode archive not creating DSYM file

For most of my projects, I setup an "archive" scheme to archive my project, creating an IPA and DSYM that I can upload to TestFlight. However, I'm working on a more complicated project that has several targets within the project workspace, quite a…
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An app build does not appear in TestFlight

I don't remember this has happened to me before, but for some unknown reason my last app build does not appear in TestFlight. The archiving and upload went as usual with no problem. And if I try to make a new upload, it says there is already a build…
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Why would a TAR file be smaller than its contents?

I have a directory I’m archiving: $ du -sh oldcode 1400848 $ tar cf oldcode.tar oldcode So the directory is 1.4gb. The file is significantly smaller, though: $ ls -l oldcode.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 ieure ieure 940339200 2002-01-30 10:33 oldcode.tar Only…
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RAR archives with java

Is there a good java API for manipulating RAR archive files someone could recommend? Googling did not turn up anything overwhelmingly convincing.
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Xcode 10.1 doesn't show 'distribute app' option when archiving, can't archive

I suddenly have this weird issue with Xcode 10.1. When I archive App Store target for my app, I can't see "distribute app" option, instead it now says "Distribute Content", and neither can I export ipa nor upload to App Store directly. My archive…
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