So I was trying to untar a large archive — a time consuming process — and had the problem that the laptop was going to sleep while I was doing it. I don’t seem to be able to completely turn off the hibernation settings on this machine, so below is my solution as to a DIY mouse jiggler. Unfortunately I discovered that even with this the process crashed (both in GNU tar and WinRAR), presumably because those programs were never designed/tested with ultra-large archives in mind… Which to be honest is a little surprising! Anyway, I can’t imagine anyone else needs it (although it includes source code, so maybe that’s more useful), but for posterity I posted my own untar utility for Windows.
I’m curious. Just how big was the archive?
the mouse jiggler rules. patent that bad boy now!
Fredrik – It’s about 80 gig — MP3 files, a zillion digital camera photos (many duplicated due to a filing mistake), etc… I’ve actually discovered that the crash is not software related, but OS related… Something to do with an upper limit on the number of file operations it seems. Working on a patch now, so I’ll update the utility (not that I really think anyone needs it but me).
you have a great swastiparquet!!!he he he!!!