Downloading SignBank

[Steve Slevinski]

Hi Tim and Geoffrey,

I have never had a problem unzipping the IMWA images on either Windows 
XP or Linux.  After some investigation, I've determined that your 
problems may be caused by your hard drive format.  I am using NTFS as my 
file system.  If you are using FAT32, you may be hitting the max files 
per folder limit.

It theory, a FAT32 folder can hold 65,534 files.  However, the use of 
long file names can significantly reduce the number of available files.  
The IMWA graphics use long file names with a length of 18.

If you open file explorer and right click on your hard drive and select 
properties, you will be able to see if you are using NTFS or FAT32 under 
the File system attribute.

If this is the problem, then this is a problem.  Please check and we'll 
go from there.
-Steve

Tim Grove wrote:

> Hello folks!
>
> I wanted to share my own experience of unzipping sign writing files in 
> case it may help someone else.
>
> The file that I downloaded was named "imwa.zip" and contained around 
> 26,263 png images. I tried several different utilities for unzipping 
> this file and even wrote my own script in python to do the job, but 
> nothing seems to have been very successful. I could unzip around 
> 21,844 files and then things would stop. I am working on Windows XP 
> Pro. WHAT I DID DISCOVER was that I could extract these initial 21,844 
> files into one directory and then extract the remaining files into a 
> second directory, and then I could write them out to a CD to give me a 
> complete set. Don't ask me why this works!!! I don't know if this is a 
> Windows problem or something specific to my machine, but it almost 
> appears that I have a limit to file number or size that I can place 
> into a single directory. If anyone has an answer to this mystery, I 
> would love to hear it, but for now I appear to have a full set of 
> images by splitting the unzipping between two separate directories. (I 
> also have a splitting headache as well!)
>
> Best regards,
> Tim Grove
>
> Geoffrey Hunt wrote:
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>> *From:* owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu 
>> [mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] *On Behalf Of *Valerie 
>> Sutton
>> *Sent:* 14 September 2005 10:06
>> *To:* sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>> *Subject:* Re: [sw-l] Downloading SignBank
>>
>> SignWriting List
>> September 14, 2005
>>
>> Geoffrey Hunt wrote:
>>
>>> I think I we are talking about the same download. I downloaded it 
>>> and was unable to unzip it in Windows, it seemed to contain too many 
>>> individual graphics files, 20,000+. Would it be possible to divide 
>>> the zip file into several parts?
>>
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>>
>> Hello Geoffrey!
>> Thanks for telling me. Let us first be sure we are talking about the 
>> same download...there are so many on our sites...
>>
>> Recently Tim Grove (I believe) downloaded all the symbols of the IMWA 
>> in one large file, and that is over 26,000 tiny graphics files...are 
>> you referring to that kind of download? Or do you really mean 
>> SignBank, which is a different download. Charles and I were 
>> discussing downloading SignBank Runtime for Windows on this web page:
>>
>> http://www.SignBank.org/downloads
>>
>> Are you saying that you could not unzip SignBank Runtime? If so, I 
>> need to know...Was the file you tried to unzip named SignBank Runtime?
>>
>> Breaking up the IMWA download that Tim tried could be done, but 
>> breaking up the SignBank Runtime download is another story...I would 
>> have to hire a programmer to find out how to separate those files 
>> because it is a relational database...
>>
>> I look forward to hearing from you -
>>
>> Val ;-)
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