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hi there!
I'm just wondering is it possible, that a simple MS-DOS Batch file could find files and compres them into zip? I have a network drive, and the pictures are in one place, separated in subfolders named for example 2006, 2007... could you help or give me some useful tips?

Thanks,
Adrian N.

Yes, this should be possible to do with a pretty simple batch file. Not an expert on this parts, but I know that you can zip and unzip from cmd, so there shouldn't be problems doing this.

maybie you could post how to do a batch file like this, please?

i will post the batch file tomorrow. just one question, what kind of zip you use? 7zip or winzip?

here are a couple methods i use

winrar
START /belownormal /wait /min /D"C:\Program Files\WinRAR" winrar a -ep -afzip "C:\path\to\output_file.zip" "C:\path\to\the\directory\you\want\to\zip"

7-zip
START /belownormal /wait /D"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\" 7z.exe a -tzip -r -mx5 "C:\path\to\output_file.zip" "C:\path\to\the\directory\you\want\to\zip"

If you want to know all related command, just open Winrar then goto help and find there..

Thanks

thanks

its zipping a file .........but can i zip a folder........using this same command

santhosh, both this commands zip a folder

Note:
START /belownormal /wait /min /D"C:\Program Files\WinRAR" winrar a -ep1 -afzip "C:\path\to\output_file.zip" "C:\path\to\the\directory\you\want\to\zip"

!k thnks,

but again i am facing same problem, its zipping only files inside that folder...not the folder.

example:
i have a folder name sat,inside this i got sub folders and files.
now i want to zip this sat folder.


when i tried its zipping all the files but not the folder.


kindly help me out what changes should i do.

one more example....if that sat folder doesn't have any file, when i run the script it shows error " no files is add to zip".
but it should zip that folder right...how to do it.

START /belownormal /wait /D"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\" 7z.exe a -tzip -r- -mx5 "C:\path\to\output_file.zip" "C:\path\to\the\directory\you\want\to\zip\*.*"
santhosh, read the help on the command line of archiver

Thanks !k

i found it

START /belownormal /wait /min /D"C:\Program Files\WinRAR" winrar a -rr -r -ep1 -afzip "C:\Documents and Settings\Pretups2

\dat.rar" "C:\Documents and Settings\Pretups2\sat"