Extracting large tar files (more that 4GB?) does not work, incomplete extraction
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Hello
I think I found a bug.
I have a .tar.bz2 file (I also tried with the standalone .tar version with same result), that is 2.5GB (the uncompressed .tar is 8.1G).
I extract the files from the .tar.gz, and only get a partial extraction. Trying to extract the ‘missing’ files manually, the file do get extracted, but are then extracted as 0-bytes file.
The archive (.tar.gz) I have problem with can be downloaded from Backtrack web site (a Linux distribution). At www.backtrack-linux.org, in the download section, it’s the ‘BackTrack 4 R1 Release VMware Image’. The archive is 2.5G.
I tried with another decompressor and that worked fine.
This is with PA 2010 11.61.06
Regards
Eric -
MOving to PowerArchiver Support - not reported as a PACL fault (although a similar size limit may apply to PACL as well).
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Hello
I think I found a bug.
I have a .tar.bz2 file (I also tried with the standalone .tar version with same result), that is 2.5GB (the uncompressed .tar is 8.1G).
I extract the files from the .tar.gz, and only get a partial extraction. Trying to extract the ‘missing’ files manually, the file do get extracted, but are then extracted as 0-bytes file.
The archive (.tar.gz) I have problem with can be downloaded from Backtrack web site (a Linux distribution). At www.backtrack-linux.org, in the download section, it’s the ‘BackTrack 4 R1 Release VMware Image’. The archive is 2.5G.
I tried with another decompressor and that worked fine.
This is with PA 2010 11.61.06
Regards
Erici am not sure what is the size limit in our support for TAR, it could be less than 8 GB easily…
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I noticed &zip has only recently added support for TAR > 8GB. So if there is a current limit, this could be an interesting wishlist (for both PA and PACL)?
