#71 Cannot make an BZip2 archive

[Anonymous]

I was trying to make a bz2 from two files which I selected with Ctrl
key. I gave a right click on one of the files .. make archive and the
straight OK.
A message box appear with message: The parameter is
incorrect.
Guess that's all.
7-zip is COOL! It keep me a step away from piracy :).
Thank you guys!

akhmad_f@hotmail.com

[Igor Pavlov]

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bzip2 doesn't support compressing more than one file

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I semiroutinely run into files that when I try to put them
in an archive (tar or zip) using the 7-zip program, it just
fails.

With b24 it generated an unspecified error, in b28 it gave
me a similar incorrect parameter error on the same files.
Beats me...

Oh, little anecdote. I uninstalled 7-Zip b24 and apparently
it couldn't delete one of the core .dll files. When I tried
installing b28 afterwards it didn't reinstall the 7zip
context menu entries in explorer.

My solution was uninstalling, renaming the 7-zip dir,
rebooting, hitting okay about 30 times while something
complained about all the .dll files that wern't there. Then
I reinstalled and it was fine (and I threw in a mess of
reboots for good measure).

This is on an otherwise healthy W2k system.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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make a .tar file then compress that w/ bz2

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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It also unexpectedly quits when trying to change compression
level of Zip fom Normal to ultra.

[Daniel Serodio]

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What about making a .tar.bz2 instead of failing?

[Jim Michaels]

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you should put that factoid about not being able to compress more than 1 file in the manual with the -mBZip2 switch documentation. makes for a lot of comfused folks. I thought I was just getting a better compression method.