How to make a bunch of little zip files ?

[jonMEGA]

I need to take a big file (1.7 GB) and turn it into a bunch of zip files so I can burn them onto a CD....

I have WinRAR but I havent figured out how to do this. Can anyone help ?

thanks,

 

[yakko]

R.T.F.M.

 

[TuffGirl]

Download one of these apps. Hope this helps.

 

[hoihtah]

right click on the file...
and you should see "add to archive..."
if you have winrar installed.

once the screen comes up..
you want to set the "volume size, bytes"
to whatever segment you want.

a normal cd can fit 700mb ... so do your thing.

 

[BigSmooth]

You can't make a multi-volume set of ZIP files unless you are spanning multiple disks (annoying!)

You're right, WinRAR does have a "multi-volume" or "split archive" feature. In the "Archive name/parameters" screen when you go to create a RAR file, use the drop-down menu for "volume size". This will split the RAR up into files of that size.

Whoops, too slow.

 

[jonMEGA]

Thanks

 

[hoihtah]

you're welcome.

 

[Psylence]

<< How to make a bunch of little zip files ? >>



You just take a mommy and a daddy zip file and put them together in the same folder on your hard drive (be sure there are no other files in that folder). And before you know it........

 

[T2T III]

<< You can't make a multi-volume set of ZIP files unless you are spanning multiple disks (annoying!) >>


WinZip 8.1 will allow you make multi-volume Zip files - version 7 and prior did not allow you to do this function. To invoke this under WinZip 8.1, you create the regular Zip file, then split it up. When splitting it up, there are several options (CD-650 MB, CD-700 MB, etc.). Very good stuff!!

 

[BigSmooth]

<< WinZip 8.1 will allow you make multi-volume Zip files - version 7 and prior did not allow you to do this function. To invoke this under WinZip 8.1, you create the regular Zip file, then split it up. When splitting it up, there are several options (CD-650 MB, CD-700 MB, etc.). Very good stuff!! >>


Thanks for the tip!