I am trying to compress some of my runtimes to burn to DVD, but when I use BatchZip Tool Kit to zip them  I lose all of the folders and when I unzip to test the folder integrity, all of the folders are gone and the files are all mixed up together

I tried compressing with recurser, but all that does is zip up all of the sub folders separately. I just want to zip up the whole folder and have it unzip with the sub folder structure intact, not have to go into a bunch of sub folders and unzip files inside each of them.

Does anyone use BatchZip Tool Kit and know how to achieve what I need to do?

I have been doing it one runtime at a time using Winzip. Does Winzip have the ability to batch zip and maintain folder structure?

I used WinAce and did batch zipping with it with no problems.
But those where small batches, the freebies I made.
I dont know how it handles huge files.

Lately I downloaded WinRar, this seems to work better than WinZip and WinAce but I dont know how it handles batches.

Both might be usefull to look into.

Curently I am not at home so I cant look into it, sorry.

Quote - I used WinAce and did batch zipping with it with no problems.
But those where small batches, the freebies I made.
I dont know how it handles huge files.

Yeah, I know I can't really zip a whole runtime into one zip file. What I'm actually doing is making several zip files for each runtime:

Geomettries
Textures
Either the whole Library depending on which runtime, or each folder (IE: characters, props, poses etc)  in the top level of the library.
But what Batchzip has been doing is zipping every single folder inside the Geometries and Texture folders, and if those tolders had sub folders in them, zipping those up separately.  So instead of my having to unzip a few zip files, I would have to troll through folder after folder to find all of the hundreds of zip files that Batchzip is creating.

With the WinAce thing I zipped a file with subfiles altogether in one zip with no problem.

I gues that is what you want.

If I understood right  :blushing:

So WinAce should do what you want to try.

Ok, thanks. I'll do a google and check it out.

Attached Link: winrar

I allways use winrar. When I do a right click on a runtime folder I choose the option "add to archive " ( or something like that, I use the Dutch version of windows and winrar ) and then I push ok and it is all set for a .rar or a .zip file ( you can choose ) and it keeps its underlying folder structure.

You can get winrar from http://www.win-rar.com/

Acadia,

On Windows I Like WinRar as well, it supports file sizes up to 8 gigs (on NTFS), and has a pretty good command line interface. 

So if you have to manage lots of files and gigs of disk then WinRar is probably your best bet.

If your on mac they do have the command line rar utility that you can also use.

I do have Winrar but I didn't know it could do .zip extensions. I mostly have it just so I can unzip the odd .rar file that I come across because Winzip can't unzip those.

What I've been doing is right clicking on a folder and picking "Add to .zip" and zipping  using Winzip.

But I was hoping for something that I could select, say... the Geometries folder and Textures folder and have the Geometries and its sub folders compressed into 1 zip, and the Textures and its sub folders compressed into another. And when I unzipped them, the folder structures inside those 2 folders are maintained.

DVD's only hold 4 gigs so zipping up an 8 gig runtime is pointless because there is no way I can burn it to a DVD, which is why I need to zip Geometries, Textures and maybe the Library/character, Library/props, Library/pose folders.

back in the command-line days of winzip (am I revealing my age?...;) there was a '-r' option for recurse subdirectories (no magic involved...;) maybe there's still an option in your version to do this. You get one...big...zip...

Sorry I misunderstood the real root of your problem.

In the Zip Options are you sure your setting Preserve File Paths?

Right Click Folder WinZip -> Add to Zip File
Type in the FileName you want.
Under Options make sure you check Save full path info

That will preserve your path information that you are looking for.

I can zip a folder so that it maintains its folder structure. That isn't the problem.

I want to be able to batch zip more than one folder at a time so that I don't have to sit there and right click over and over again for each zip I want to make.

When I use BatchZip Tool Kit for zipping up .png files, I just select all of the individual .png files and let BatchZip go down the list and zip up each file. i don't have to sit there and right click each .png file and zip it one at a time. It's done as a batch process.

I want to be able to do the same thing with my folders so that the subfolder structure is maintained

For example. I don't want to have to click on Runtime1 and right click on Geometries and zip it, then right click on Textures and zip it, then go into the Library folder and right click on each of the character, props, poses etc folders to zip those.  I would like a way to select all of the folders that I want to zip, then have the program go down the list and zip them up while maintaining the folder structure of each  of the main folders it's zipping

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Hmmm.

What's that?

That's BatchZip. Sorry - I didn't notice you said BatchZip Toolkit. Same guy wrote both.

Anyway, go into Batch Zip Configuration and click on "Store original paths of files in compressed archive".

What a screwy program. The installer locked up on me three times - I had to go into task manager and kill some processes.

Then when I tried to run it to give you a screen shot, it faulted and locked up.

You sure you want to use software like this to protect your most valuable content??

Quote - What a screwy program. The installer locked up on me three times - I had to go into task manager and kill some processes.

Then when I tried to run it to give you a screen shot, it faulted and locked up.

You sure you want to use software like this to protect your most valuable content??

LOL, well I still haven't figured out how to do it, though I did find the configuration and changed it to preserve the archive.  But it still seems to zip up everything in the sub folders too! I think I'll stick to right clicking on each foder that I want to zip and leave it at that. It's more time consuming but it just seems "easier." And in the time I've spent explaining what I am trying to do, and fiddling around, I could probably have 1/2 of my runtimes already zipped, lol

Thanks for all of your help :)