That seems like a reasonable approach to me. Aren't .docx files directories of XML files in a Zip container? If so, they probably wouldn't compress much anyway.

I recently had to download large sets of files from two different services, and one of them used Zip and the other used uncompressed Tar. The Zip packaging was awful because it needed to be split into a lot of files to avoid having one file to too large (they were all around 2GB). But the Tar worked much more smoothly, since it could just let me download a single 50GB Tar file that worked fine.

-Esmé

> On Sep 21, 2023, at 2:29 PM, Amy Schuler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi all,
> does anyone use the tar command to group files anymore?  I'm looking to
> group some .docx files together to archive in a system that does not use
> folder hierarchies.  I'm thinking of doing this without compression.
> Thoughts/comments, or good alternatives?
> Thanks!
> Amy
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