Software for compressing files

[21]

Hello again,
So usually I use UT Comprez for making UZ files, but for whatever reason it comes up with errors now.  Any other programs that you use or recommend?  Thanks...

[Helen]

I only ever used the ucc eons ago. This looks good though:

http://www.lonebullet.com/tools/download-compress-alot-v11-unreal-tournament-free-1674.htm

[medor]

I use UTGM_v3Final and never error with it for my side http://unrealtournament.99.free.fr/utfiles/Utilities/Acorp_UTGM_v3Final.zip

[21]

See, I knew I could count on you guys!  Thanks, I'll give them a test and see what works for me.  Have a good day!

[21]

So I tried both compression programs.  Here is what I get:

For Acorp, I get runtime errors.  For CompressAlot I get "no file found errors".    All I was trying to do was compress some maps from my UT/Maps folder  and send them to either Desktop or back to UT/Maps or anywhere I can put them!  Both programs see the files and directories,but then just errors.  I also tried on 2 different pc's. One runs w7 and the other runs win8.1.Any ideas?  Thanks

[Helen]

I'll try it this weekend.

[medor]

Launch as administrator and maybe under compatibility XP

Have you UT at C:\UnrealTournament and not a false real addressed "program files" ?

[21]

Hi Medor,
No luck running as admin.  My UT is located at C:\GOG Games\Unreal Tournament GOTY.  Maybe that's why I'm getting runtime errors,etc.

[medor]

probably

you can try to just rename it UnrealTournament

or you can copy past it at the right place for try and rename it UnrealTournament

If you want a fresh one on C http://unrealtournament.99.free.fr/utfiles/UT_Demo/UnrealTournament-V3.exe

[Helen]

I tried the compress a lot and it worked, of course.
I did change the Setup - UT Folder value to my main ut install. For example

C:\VT\4364\

and just so you can relate to what that folder is, if I was to list some directories in it, they would be

C:\VT\4364\Maps
C:\VT\4364\System
C:\VT\4364\Textures

etc.
I changed the Setup - Output Folder to

C:\Temp\test\

Then I chose a map to compress, clicked Compress and it worked 

[Hook]

Yes, those compressor app's defaults point to a "standard" "C" drive installation.

[21]

Okay, so I couldn't get Medor's compressing software to work, but Helen's does!  Yay!  You guys were right about renaming the UT file.  So now I can add more maps to my server. 

Thanks,
Guys

[Hook]

Excellent 21!

[21]

Roger that!   

[RiTALiN]

Hey 21 are you familiar with any good programs to do "BATCH" Extracting of already compressed files? The files in question are about 160GB's worth of lost files from Map-Factory (site is long since down and gone) the files are .uz2 for UT2004 I know how to do it with UCC but am unable to do it for multiple files at once. Like you on any modern operating system (I.e vista & newer) I run into either constant crashes or missing Windows .NET redistributables which are no longer provided by Microsoft. I have been looking for a lot of these lost maps since the site went down but uncompressing files one at a time for 160GB's is ridiculous at best. Hopefully you can steer me in some direction, these past couple weeks have been hell, I just found out a couple days ago after having been in a car accident that my mother not only has lung cancer but 3 tumors in her brain pushing the brain out of alignment. So it's been a fun week or two. I already tried tinyuZ2 and ut2004Mi to no avail. :-/

[Helen]

Ritalin your personal fortunes just leave me speechless sometimes. I'm sorry about your mum, best of luck to her.

I could try to write a "wrapper" exe that calls ucc in a loop (hopefully not an infinite loop). Probably the first thing i should do is just create a dummy exe that does nothing, but the point is to see if when you run it if it would work or if you would need a distributable like you say. It would need .net either 4.0 or 4.5, can't remember, but that should definitely still be available.

[RiTALiN]

Lol, I can agree with that wholeheartedly, they leave me speechless sometimes too, all I can say is when it rain's it pours. Just so your aware if you need me to do any testing I can do that in my time off, and just a side note I do find UCC.exe to be the most reliable in general so i'm thinking something along the line's of a batch script, even if i have to do them single if I can avoid typing out the long strings via cmd prompt it'll be a big help because even with 'TAB' to speed it up half the files have maybe 5x files some sounds , map,textures etc with names that have maybe only 1 character difference towards the end, so TAB really wouldnt speed that up much. I've dealt with lengthy processes before so I mean i "can" do it, i'm just hoping to possibly make it somewhat easier. Also if it requires .NET 4 or 4.5 that's beautiful it's .NET 1x to 2.5x that are problematic.I'm running the same OS as you I believe, Win 7 x64 Enterprise.

[Helen]

Basically done, but I have to go out soon and I don't want to rush my testing, so maybe later tonite.

BTW, I "assumed" something, I "assume" that all the files you want to decompress are within the root of a single directory. Can you tell me if this is the case or not.

[Helen]

First version ready, I started it's own thread:
http://www.birdieman.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1454264861

[RiTALiN]

sorry for the late reply, this is my first day off, yes all the files are in a single directory. I will test your new release tonight considering im off till thursday. Thanks for taking the time to make that, once again you are excellent.