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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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7Zip add encryption to files

I have a .7z archive that I manage using 7zFM (File Manager) and I can easily add objects to this archive. However the objects in the archive are encrypted with AES like I want them to be, but when I add something new I cannot seem to add encryption…
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Example of how to use PyLZMA

I want to use PyLZMA to extract a file from an archive (e.g. test.7z) and extract it to the same directory. I'm a newbie to Python and have no idea how to start. I've done some googling and found some examples and docs, but I don't understand how…
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Xcode 10.2 hangs during Archive on arbitrary Task

This question has been asked before with prior Xcode versions: Their solutions were: Remove armv7 from Valid architectures Change debug information format to DWARF instead of DWARF with dSYM File I have tried all of these but the archiving still…
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xcode4 archive/ipa problem

Possible Duplicate: Xcode 4 Archive Version Unspecified Hi, I'm archiving an application for iPad adhoc deployment but when I try to share the archive, the option for ipa construction is not available. The application I'm trying to deploy was…
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Creating own implementation of Boost::Archive

I'm currently creating a concept which uses Boost::Serialization and which needs to implement its own Boost::Archive cause the data has to be serialized in a certain way. There is documentation about implementing custom archives in the…
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Creating archive with shutil.make_archive() while excluding some path(s)

Is there a way to have shutil.make_archive exclude some child directories, or alternatively, is there a way to append directories to a single archive through shutil? Examples are fun: /root /workingDir /dir1 /dir2 /dirA …
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FILESYSTEM vs SQLITE, while storing up-to 10M files

I would like to store up-to 10M files, 2TB storage unit. The only properties which I need restricted to filenames, and their contents (data). The files max-length is 100MB, most of them are less than 1MB. The ability of removing files is required,…
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How to extract a single file from a remote archive file?

Given URL of an archive (e.g. a zip file) Full name (including path) of a file inside that archive I'm looking for a way (preferably in Java) to create a local copy of that file, without downloading the entire archive first. From my (limited)…
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Gzip: Too many levels of symbolic links

folks. I've just wrong gzip my /etc/ folder on Ubuntu 10.10 (It's my home Internet server). So, the wrong command to gzip have changed the original files in /etc/ folder with .gz ones. The server doesn't start now. Then I've booted from disk with…
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Tar: create archive exclude directories except one

I have some directories with some…
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Are hard links possible within a zip archive?

I am creating a zip archive containing two identical files at different paths. Does the zip archive format support something akin to the Unix concept of hard links? By this I mean the ability to store the file only once (saving space), but to index…
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Can we import .apparchive bundles in Xcode 4

In Xcode 3, applications were archived in .apparchive folders. In Xcode 4, applications are now archived in an .xcarchive bundle. Is there a way to convert .apparchive folders in .xcarchive bundles or to open .apparchive folders with Xcode 4?
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xcodebuild archive path of newly created archive

When I archive from the command line using xcodebuild archive, how can I get the path to the newly created archive? I'd like to follow on with an -exportArchive command to create an adhoc distribution. I know that I can define an -archivePath,…
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How to identify a zip file in java?

I want to identify my archive whether it is zip or rar. But the problem I get runtime error before I can validate my file. I want to create custom notification: public class ZipValidator { public void validate(Path pathToFile) throws IOException…
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Xcode 7 Archive size large

I've previously been using Xcode 6 to write my Swift app. I've now upgraded to Xcode 7 and upgraded my Swift syntax. Previously, when I did an archive of my app, I'm sure it was only around 12MB in size when viewed in finder. Now, it is much larger…
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