Downloading SignBank

[Steve Slevinski]

Hi Time and Geoffrey,

I have created a rough divide of the IMWA into the 8 Categories.  The 
largest folder now contains 18,628 files.  I hope this will help.  You 
can download this online at http://www.signpuddle.org/imwasub.zip 
(10490984 Sep 14 10:28)

-Steve

Steve Slevinski wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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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>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
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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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