Downloading SignBank

Geoffrey Hunt geoffrey_hunt at SIL.ORG
Wed Sep 14 17:29:15 UTC 2005


I'm using NTFS and was also having the unzipping problem.  With the new
imwasub.zip, I'm not having the same problem, but I estimate it would take
my computer about five hours to unzip it, because of the huge number of
files and writing the filenames.

Geoffrey

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
[mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] On Behalf Of Tim Grove
Sent: 14 September 2005 16:01
To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
Subject: Re: [sw-l] Downloading SignBank

That new file unzips okay, and yes, I am using FAT32! Thanks for your help!

Tim

Steve Slevinski wrote:

>
> 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)
>
>> 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.
>
>



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