How I archive large files.
When trying to archive large files, are you constantly seeing them fail to upload? Here is a trick that I use that makes it super easy and won't crash your internet!
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Hey what's up? i'm currently archiving some stuff and i'm going to show you how i do it here we go so i have all of my videos for productivity shop on my dropbox but it's getting too big because the movies are quite large so what i want to do is place this on amazon drive s3 which is pretty cheap these capture folders contain movies that are very large you can see 3.1 gigabytes it's going to take forever to upload and it will most probably fail over a typical internet connection so i'll show you what i do i use this program called kekka it's a zip program it's pretty cool and basically you can split zip archives so it'll take a large file and then it'll split it into little pieces which are easier to upload and then when you download it again you can easily put it together so i'll show you how it works what i'm going to do is open up kekka and i'll type 20 or 25 megabytes here not that and then i'll go ahead and go to the one that i'm working on now and i'm gonna go ahead and just zip the entire capture folder so i'll put capture here a little dialog will come up and i'll do new folder and i'll call it capture zips and then i'll push compress and then you can see that the files are starting to be compressed into a zip but then they're each 25 megabytes pretty cool so from there on my amazon s3 storage i go ahead and put the entire folder but instead of putting the capture folder i put the capture zips and then from there once it's uploaded just to be super certain i download the capture zips to my hard drive and then make sure i can open the downloaded version before deleting the zips from my personal computer and the capture folder since i used dropbox and it's recently been up there i could recover it that way but i always like to double check that it downloads and opens successfully after uploading this is very important it's trauma from the past that it that i'm expressing uh but yeah if you have any questions you can email me at hello at theproductivityshop.co or join the productivity shop slack channel thanks for watching i'll talk to you later
Hey what's up? i'm currently archiving some stuff and i'm going to show you how i do it here we go so i have all of my videos for productivity shop on my dropbox but it's getting too big because the movies are quite large so what i want to do is place this on amazon drive s3 which is pretty cheap these capture folders contain movies that are very large you can see 3.1 gigabytes it's going to take forever to upload and it will most probably fail over a typical internet connection so i'll show you what i do i use this program called kekka it's a zip program it's pretty cool and basically you can split zip archives so it'll take a large file and then it'll split it into little pieces which are easier to upload and then when you download it again you can easily put it together so i'll show you how it works what i'm going to do is open up kekka and i'll type 20 or 25 megabytes here not that and then i'll go ahead and go to the one that i'm working on now and i'm gonna go ahead and just zip the entire capture folder so i'll put capture here a little dialog will come up and i'll do new folder and i'll call it capture zips and then i'll push compress and then you can see that the files are starting to be compressed into a zip but then they're each 25 megabytes pretty cool so from there on my amazon s3 storage i go ahead and put the entire folder but instead of putting the capture folder i put the capture zips and then from there once it's uploaded just to be super certain i download the capture zips to my hard drive and then make sure i can open the downloaded version before deleting the zips from my personal computer and the capture folder since i used dropbox and it's recently been up there i could recover it that way but i always like to double check that it downloads and opens successfully after uploading this is very important it's trauma from the past that it that i'm expressing uh but yeah if you have any questions you can email me at hello at theproductivityshop.co or join the productivity shop slack channel thanks for watching i'll talk to you later
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