best way to compress 17gb wow folder

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right i need to put world of warcraft folder on to dvd to give to my mate as he just bought the keys from blizzard online and he was going to downlaod the client but it will take ages to download as my wow folder alone is 17gb up to date

i will be puting them on to dvds 4gb

is its best to rar the files up to 4gb each and then burn them and what would the settings to get win rar to out put the at 4gig or even 7zip
 
7-zip natively supports archive-splitting - when you select "add to archive" and the archive creation window opens, simply select "4480M - DVD" from the dropdown box labelled "Split to volumes, bytes:"
 
Dano said:
Zip stuff into a single/few archive/s, many files increase write time to memory sticks massively.
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Unfortunately not appropriate. I'm using it at the moment as a complete file store. 22gb takes almost a day to copy. As you said, many files :(

Anyway, hijack aside, just get him to bring his pc/hdd over. Simples and free.
 
honestly even 17gb isn't that big a deal these days, but the whole folder shouldn't be anywhere near 17gigs without the patches, still got a WoW folder though I don't think any have WOTLK installed, can't remember if i upgraded to it or not when I was playing it before. it certainly had the patch that took it to the correct version since wotlk was released.

Don't delete the patches though, just move them to a backup folder so "if" your install gets smegged instead of a stupidly long reinstall/repair/patch process you just move the patches back into a default install run the updater and it will use those patches to get up to date.

infact if you don't have a dl dvd burner, or the discs for it you can probably just put the patches and take the original cd's/dvd if you have them, install that and update from the patches.
 
tell your friend to stop being lazy and deal with the download time lol it shouldn't take too long tbh just leave the pc downloading while he sleeps? then wake up .. job done? cause surely he is going to need a fresh install of everything for such an expansive mmorpg?
 
bledd. said:
just copy them to your backup drive and lend that to him.

everyone has a backup drive
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Wrong. Everyone should have a backup drive. There are still loads of people I know that don't have one then cry when something breaks.
 
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