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Tar works fine with or without compression. If space isn't an issue and you have a fast connection, it can be faster to simply transfer uncompressed than to go through the compression/decompression overhead. kyle On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 11:35 AM Esmé Cowles <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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: > > > > 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 > > > > -- > > > > Amy C. Schuler (she/her) > > Director, Information Services & Library > > > > Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies | 2801 Sharon Turnpike | Millbrook, > NY > > www.caryinstitute.org >