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WINZIP - Self extracting zip?

hi

i have a 20mb access db and i try to upload it to my website but the connection times out too soon

i can upload about 10mb of data

i tried to create a self extracting file but i can only seem to add .zip files to it (and my web providers wont unzip a file for security reasons)

can i create a self extracting file that will reproduce my mdb on my website?

thanks

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Erina

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slink9

There is a program that splits a file into multiples and puts them back together at the source. It is called GSPLIT and can be downloaded from www.gdgsoft.com

hmcgeehan

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will they automatically rejoin after they are sent via ftp?
thanks

alextoft

No - they will not automatically rejoin. You will need to upload the file in 1 piece. A minority of hosting companies give telnet/SSH access - if this was the case you could easily unzip or join files from terminal, but this would only be possible on a unix/linux/bsd variant server. I suspect that if you're working with access your webserver will be IIS on Windows (?), in which case you're stuff from the word go.

Use an ftp client which supports resuming broken transfers - AbsoluteFTP is quite a decent client, and a 30 day trial can be downloaded from www.vandyke.com

hmcgeehan

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alex,
used the absoluteftp program and it seems to resume uploading the .mdb (i upload again and it asks if i want to resume - it then starts at around 50%) but then after it hits 100% the full file does not seem to be there on the site (it only seems to be half its size still - even after a resume to 100%)

thanks

slink9

Erina has already suggested that you may have a space limit on your account. Have you verified that this is not the case?

hmcgeehan

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There is no space limit.

thanks

alextoft

curious - I can only suspect that the site does not support resuming in that case, and that whilst aftp thinks it has successfully resumed, it has in fact overwritten.

I don't know what your server is running, but I do know that some of the older (circa NT4) implementations of ftp were sketchy to say the least.

Kinda getting short on suggestions now :o(

nickypasque

Just use WinZip .... make a normal zip and change then browse the menus to find "make exe" or something. Choose a path and it will compile it.

When you run it it will extract all the files in the ZIP to a chosen directoty. WinZip is very user friendly :~)

-Nicky

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