Problem with Archiving .tar

[Derek Broughton]

Richard wrote:

> On Wednesday 31 October 2007 12:12:13 am Chris Lemire wrote:
>> Richard: I'm sorry I can't help, but I _can_ say that on my (gutsy) kde
>> desktop, I can still right click on a folder and get a "Compress" context
>> menu. That menu contains "Compress as FILENAME.tar.gz"; "Compress as "
>> (with a submenu for all the compression types supported by Ark); "Add to"
>> (presumably a most-recently-used list of archives created by this tool);
>> and "Add to archive...". As far as I can see, these work.
> 
> Sorry, Derek it does not work,
> Yes, I too, am using kubuntu 7.10,
> Have been trying to archive, using .tar only, on a 1.7GB folder, in the
> home directory, the action is in the contextual menu for archive (just
> select) .tar I notice it does work on smaller files size, say 650MB, but
> try 8-9 times on the folder in the home directory, and its just hangs.
> 
Ah.  Well, I can't say I've _ever_ tried to compress files that large...

> that is why I posted the problem in the first place... I don't know why a
> couple of you, don't understand that, and want to flame the command line
> as a reply to the problem. instead of trying to figure out what's causing
> the problem.

Now that you tell us it only happens with large files, I'd have to suggest
that you _must_ try it with the command line first.  The gui is just a
front end, and really shouldn't cause problems in itself, so I'd be willing
to bet that you'll run into the same problem using tar in the CLI.
-- 
derek