Best way to convert thousands of DMS files

[Ian]

I have loads of DMS files that I need to convert to ADF, what is the best way to do this?

I've used xDMS from windows, but this doesn't extract every DMS so thats out of the question.

I've used dopus from within WinUAE before but forgot how to use it (Lost the script BippyM gave me), and obviously this takes a lot longer but seemed to work with all dms files.

So is there a better way?

[DH]

Try Adf Opus 1.2

I'm sure you can batch convert them all back to adf, I'm pretty sure

Edit: Yes you can, I've just checked

[Ian]

Think that doesn't work on all dms files either plus not 100% sure but i tried to install a few weeks ago and it didn't seem to like windows 7 x64

[prowler]

Are you sure that the DMS files which xDMS won't extract are not corrupt?

In my experience, this has always been the case. But then I have found xDMS to be one of a number of tools useful to help repair them.

[DH]

Hmm, windows 7, that's a real shame... Can't you use VirtualPC with XP on Win7 and do it through that. I know it's a pain in the butt, but I batch converted over 2000 .dms files some years ago in XP and it seemed to work on all of those, not saying it works 100% of the time, just my experience.

[Ian]

Originally Posted by prowler

Are you sure that the DMS files which xDMS won't extract are not corrupt?

In my experience, this has always been the case. But then I have found xDMS to be one of a number of tools useful to help repair them.

Yeah i'm sure they aren't corrupt as i extracted on to an emulated floppy yesterday without issue. I don't know if there is a newer version of xDMS though. Got the version from pauls website 1.3.3

[prowler]

Originally Posted by Ian

Yeah i'm sure they aren't corrupt as i extracted on to an emulated floppy yesterday without issue.

That's good to know. DMS files are not simple to fix.

Originally Posted by Ian

I don't know if there is a newer version of xDMS though. Got the version from pauls website 1.3.3

No, that's the latest version I have too.

[StingRay]

Originally Posted by prowler

Are you sure that the DMS files which xDMS won't extract are not corrupt?

xDMS has problems with quite a few DMS archives. I'd always use a native Amiga version for converting such files.

[Toni Wilen]

uaeunp should be more safe than xdms. uaeunp uses xdms code but also includes fixes related to banner ad handling.

xdms does not support some "fake" banners block types and creates invalid adf images.

[Ian]

Is uaeunp windows side or amiga side Toni and is it just drag and drop? I could try later i suppose

[Toni Wilen]

It Windows command line = need some batch file stuff to handle multiple files.

Perhaps I need to add built-in batch mode..

[Ian]

Yes you do, when you get time of course

if its not to cheeky maybe a feature that will put the adfs in the same folder the dms files where in. Currently xDMS puts the adfs in the same directory regardless of where it came from. And is also quite limited to the amount of files it came process at anyone time.

[Toni Wilen]

It isn't that simple (just extracting all files to same dir)

Unpacking one DMS usually generates more than one file because uaeunp also extracts all dms (bbs) banner ads (which are very common) and fake boot blocks (which are also used as an ads..) as separate files, uaeunp is not just a simple disk image extractor

[Ian]

I don't mind that actually, I like to read all the text so if it extracted all that I'd be happy.

[Dopuser]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

It isn't that simple (just extracting all files to same dir)

Unpacking one DMS usually generates more than one file because uaeunp also extracts all dms (bbs) banner ads (which are very common) and fake boot blocks (which are also used as an ads..) as separate files, uaeunp is not just a simple disk image extractor

There is no need for unpacking dms archives before conversion.
On AmigaOS there is XAD package doing the magic with archives.
Use power of Amiga! Just one simple file manager's button will make miracle there... mark all DMS archives, press converting button and that is all.

[Toni Wilen]

Afaik all external DMS decompression routines are based on xdms (reverse engineered from dms) and official dms is closed source. There is no guarantee it works correctly with all files.

And you would also lose bbs ads

[Ian]

So I got the bat file going (Not really an expert at them though)

I can get all filenames and extract them, but if I try to extract them into a different directory it doesn't work.

this is what I'm using that works:

FOR /R %%F in (*.dms) do uaeunp "%%~nF.dms" "%%~nF.adf"

What I would like to do is this:

FOR /R DMSs %%F in (*.dms) do uaeunp "DMS\%%~nF.dms" "ADFs\%%~nF.adf"

Using this it finds the DMS files in the DMSs directory goes through the process of extraction, but will not put the ADF in the ADFs directory and it says file not found.

[Ian]

Nevermind, solved that with just a simple move command after.

Toni, How do you extract banner ads and such, I have tried -x DMSs ** to extact all but I just end up with another copy of all the DMS files.

[Toni Wilen]

Hmm.. Probably not possible because it also lists dms file in "extracted" file list..

Need to think some more batch mode friendly way..

[Ian]

How do you extract ADFs from WRP?

I have successfully done it with dsq files because there is a thread here about it, but nothing on wrp extraction.

I'm using this in a btachfile.

FOR /R WRPs %%F in (*.wrp) do (
uaeunp WRPs %%~nF.wrp %%~nF.adf
move %%~nF.adf ADFs\
del WRPs\%%~nF.wrp
)

From looking at the image it's zipped inside the wrp file and although the above does create an ADF it is the same size as the wrp so I'm guessing something additional is needed to unzip the image?