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Has anyone ever encountered a problem distributing a large publication?

I created a real big publication that should install itself and be protected by a password. So I used Opus' distribution-wizard.
This seemed to work fine, it copied the install-files, started compressing them, but after some time stopped with the message that an error had occurred. No install-files were produced. I tried this repeatedly in Opus 4 and 5, each time with the same result. I do not lack disk-space nor computer-memory (2Gb). The pub, however, is 4.3 Gb (data-dvd), due to a lot of audio and video.

There are of course some alternative programs, but its annoying that a feature apparently does not work right. Or am I doing something wrong?

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Sounds like you are exceeding the Windows file size limit (4Gb). You're going to have problems dealing with such files in anything.

Admittedly Opus should perhaps report a more useful error, but that section of code was written when a couple of hundred megabytes was bigger than most hard disks! I'll try to take a look at it for a future version.

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If it is a size limit, you could try using the divide up for 1.44mb floppy disk option on the distribution wizard. This will chop the final file into 1.44mb chunks (aprox 3000.) Which can be copied to the DVD.

Regards

Brenden Knifton

Hi,
Thanks for your help.

I already feared I was pushing it to the limit and the whole would be to big, but hoped the compression algorithm of the wizard would assist to bring the size down. It didn't apparently.
Chopping the publication up in 1.44 Mb chunks does not work. The distribution-wizard seems to load the whole pub to compress it, before starting to write the ‘chunks’. It does not ‘pipeline’ the process. That was also the bottleneck in the earlier efforts.
It shuts simply down with an error-warning and nothing is produced.
Anyway, my hard disk got a good exercise

I could use a program which allows me to install the compressed an packed exe-files to a target directory and just copy the *.ilm-files (they are encoded anyway) to the same target. That way I should be able to publish as large publications as I want.


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Have you looked at the compression setting in the publish wizard. I you turn up the compession to max on all areas you may be able to just get it down to a managable size.

Regards

Brenden Knifton

That was the first thought that came up, but it didn't help (enough).

Thanks,

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ps. I 'solved' the problem fo now by splitting the pub and creating two installs using a thirdparty-program.