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Stephen Hale
Stephen Hale

Reputation: 25

powershell compress-archive File size issue

I am having a issue with the Compress-Archive Command in powershell. It seems once the file size of the directory it pulls from is over 20 or so GB it returns an error. 

Compress-Archive -Path Z:\from\* -CompressionLevel Optimal -DestinationPath Z:\To\test.zip

If the folder size of from is under 20GB in size, this command works fine. If it is greater than 20GB in size I get the following error

Remove-Item : Cannot find path 'Z:\To\test.Zip' because it does not exist.

Test-Path : The specified wildcard character pattern is not valid:

Is there a limit on this that is just not notated on Microsoft site?

Note: I am on windows 10

Upvotes: 1

Views: 13053

Answers (1)

jboo
jboo

Reputation: 374

I suggest you to use powershell and call a program that is more performant to zip like 7zip, winrar or others. You could probably achive a better result with big file.

You could refer to this post for alternatives :

How to create a zip archive with PowerShell?

Upvotes: 3

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