boughtonp |
07-27-2022 01:52 PM |
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Originally Posted by TB0ne
(Post 6370115)
Sorry, but 8kb is incredibly small for an encrypted, compressed file that has actual data in it.
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Originally Posted by John VV
(Post 6370238)
8 Kb is a bit on the very small size .
Are you sure this is correct ?
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I don't understand these remarks. How big does a 7z file have to be before you guys accept it has actual data in it?
I can only assume you do not know how big a 7z file containing a single empty file is? Or an actually empty 7z file (achieved by deleting contents)?
Put differently: the only way an empty archive would appear to be 8KB is on a filesystem with a non-default block size and using a tool that displays disk usage rather than file size. (Such a case is unlikely but could be confirmed with " ls" or " stat".)
An 8 KB archive could easily contain anything from 8,000 bytes to 200,000 bytes of actual data, depending on the file types and compressability.
(This thread has a compression ratio of ~14% - it shrank from ~204KB to ~15KB, whilst three similar-to-each-other HTML files in my home directory had a ratio of ~4% - they shrunk from ~129KB to ~5KB.)
For the record, an actually empty 7z archive is 32 bytes, and Ark will display the message " This archive is empty or Ark could not open its content." whilst for a manually corrupted encrypted 7z file, Ark said " Loading the Archive FILENAME failed with the following error: Listing the archive failed."
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