Compress all adf's in a directory (Windows)

[Leandro Jardim]

This a tip for everyone that uses WinUAE and have an ever growing software collection of adf's and iso's. Its easy to compress all iso's or adf's inside a directory simply by clicking on a icon. But the tips I show here is for the 7z archiver (http://www.7-zip.org/). For other archivers, the syntax of the command varies.

Beware, using the MSDOS script below in a wrong way you can delete your floppy images without ever asking you first, can create empty archives and can create files with strange names. You need to have a basic understanding of MSDOS scripting to fix these problems yourself.

Beware, beware!

Open notepad, enter the text below and save to the same folder where lives the files you want to compress appending the extension ".bat" to the filename:

To compress to .zip enter:

for %%F in (*.adf) do "7z.exe" a -tZip "%%~nF.zip" "%%~nxF"

Or to compress to .7z:

for %%F in (*.adf) do "7z.exe" a -t7z "%%~nF.7z" "%%~nxF"

Replace the (*.adf) to (*.iso) or whatever the extension of the files are and replace "7z.exe" to the entire path of the 7z command line tool (in my computer it is "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe").

Now you can click on the icon of the file you created, and it will compress all files with that extension. In fact, you can drop the script to any folder, and when you click the script icon it will automatically compres all filer inside there.

If you want, you can automatically delete all adf's to remain only the zipped files. Beware, it works this way: before you save the text file, append below all text you entered on notepad, the following:

 for %%F in (*.adf) do del "%%~nxF"

Pay attention to enter the text correctly or bad things may happen. Again, you need to replace the (*.adf) to the kind of file you are working on, for example (*.iso). And its done!

If you need help with MSDOS scripting, you can issue the MSDOS help system entering "help" with the name of the command you want to know about.

[fuzzylogic]

Or just use total commander for this

[Leandro Jardim]

Originally Posted by fuzzylogic

Or just use total commander for this

Ooops... Yes, or use total commander... I think your fuzzy logic is technically superior.

[HnieX]

http://www.ghisler.com/plugins.htm

AmigaDX Plug-in for Total Commander.

With this plugin you can extract/view ADF, DMS, ADZ, HDF, HDZ, DMP file types for Amiga Emulators (WinUAE, U*AE). You can also create/modify ADF files. If you are an old Amiga user who have installed WinUAE or other Amiga emulator then this plugin is for you.

[FOL]

Im not sure I understand the original post.
Why are you messing with scripts, you simply, highlight all adf's, right click and select add to 7z archive.
It does it all for you.

Unless your talking about compressing them individually? all in one go.

[prowler]

Originally Posted by FOL

Unless your talking about compressing them individually? all in one go.

That was my understanding.

[Leandro Jardim]

Originally Posted by prowler

That was my understanding.

That was what I meant. This generated quite a lot of confusion, eh? Sorry...

It compress all files individually in one go, and can optionally delete all old files.

Its a trick for people that cannot afford TotalCommander, like me, or would not like to buy it only for compressing adf's.

The "for" command in MSDOS does a job equivalent to the "list" command in AmigaOS. But the two are not equal.