Downloading SignBank

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 14, 2005

Thank you, Steve, for helping with this!

Val ;-)

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On Sep 14, 2005, at 7:33 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:

> Hi Time and Geoffrey,
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> 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:
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>> Hi Tim and Geoffrey,
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>> 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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>>>> *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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