Zip up a Folder

Carnivean · Post by **Carnivean** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 10:02 pm

Hi

Can anyone please point me in the right direction here, I'm storing a number of photos from a web cam in a folder, a new photo is taken every minute so the folder size gets quite large.

Therefore I want to be able to browse to the folder containing the photos, zip it up and then rename it and start all over again.

I'd be much obliged if anyone can help

Thanks

JRL · Post by **JRL** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 10:15 pm

Is THIS helpful?

Carnivean · Post by **Carnivean** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 10:48 pm

Thanks for the help, I had looked at this but I couldn't make it work for me.

Do you know of any more examples I can look at?

JRL · Post by **JRL** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 11:03 pm

I don't know of any other examples and I've never done this myself so I have nothing readily available to provide. I have some questions though. What is not working? Are the images jpgs? If they are jpgs, my experience has been that there is virtually no gain when zipping them so could you simply use and rename a normal folder? Or could you create one zip folder and copy it to a location then name it appropriately and when it is the size you want, rename and move it to a new location then start again with the original zip folder and copy it... etc?

Carnivean · Post by **Carnivean** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 11:19 pm

As I'm using jpgs the zip file is no longer required but appreciate your help thanks