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A location or file that stores other files or data, normally accompanied by compression, encryption, sorting or organizing.

An archive is a place that you can store files or other data for storage or for sorting.

Archives can be a number of things such as a Database or a Zip or Cab file.

Normally the archive that you place the files or data into, gives you some sort of functionality such as encryption, compression or data querying functionality.

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Difference between a packaged archive and an exploded archive

I can't seem to find on the internet the difference between a packaged archive and an exploded archive. Does someone please name some references?
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Xcode 8: Preparing Archive takes forever

Today I tried to archive and upload a App to iTunes Connect Beta Testing. Xcode stays at the point "Copying Swift standard libraries" for about 10 minutes.. Two days ago it just were some seconds.. The CPU runs at 100% an the Fan is really really…
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Gradle task to create a zip archive of a directory

I have a gradle task to create a zip archive of a directory. The gradle task is: task archiveReports(type: Zip) { from '/projects/Reports/*' archiveName 'Reports.zip' } When I am running the command 'gradle archiveReports', its showing the…
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Problem importing Android project archives into Eclipse

My apologies if this is a stupid newbie question... I'm using Eclipse (Helios release) and have the Android SDK all configured as per the developer.android.com recommendations. I can create and run new projects without any problem but I can't import…
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Manipulate an Archive in memory with PHP (without creating a temporary file on disk)

I am trying to generate an archive on-the-fly in PHP and send it to the user immediately (without saving it). I figured that there would be no need to create a file on disk as the data I'm sending isn't persistent anyway, however, upon searching the…
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Xcode 4 terms "Build for testing / Build for running / build for profiling / build for archiving"

What do the following actions in Xcode 4 do? Build for Testing Build for Running Build for Profiling Build for Archiving I'm not sure when to use each of these (or whether to use any of them at all).
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Is there a way to export current hg repository head in a tar ball

HI, Is there a way to export current hg repository head in a tar ball? I don't need all the hg meta files in the tar ball (e.g history/diff).
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JAR - extracting specific files

I have .class and .java files in JAR archive. Is there any way to extract only .java files from it? I've tried this command but it doesn't work: jar xf jar-file.jar *.java
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Read skype message archive

I would like to read my skype message archive outside of the Skype app. And be able to export it in some sort (other than copy-paste it from my messages) as far i can figure skype only provides 30 days or archives. Any one out there using an app for…
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Archive does not appear in xcode4 organizer

I am trying to submit an app to iTunes using the new xcode4. I followed the apple instructions but after doing product> archive, I still do not see anything in my organizer. Can anyone help?
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How can I recover files from a corrupted .tar.gz archive?

I have a large number of files in a .tar.gz archive. Checking the file type with the command file SMS.tar.gz gives the response gzip compressed data - deflate method , max compression When I try to extract the archive with gunzip, after a delay I…
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Recover old website off waybackmachine

Is there a way to recover an entire website from the waybackmachine? I have an old site that is archived but no longer have the website files to revive it again. Is there a way to recover the old data so I can get my long lost files back?
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What's the difference between object file and static library(archive file)?

Seems archive file can be generated from object file: ar rvs libprofile.a profile.o What's the difference between object file and archive file? It seems to me that both can be used with gcc directly,e.g.: gcc *.c profile.o or gcc *.c…
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Xcode 7.1 hangs while archiving swift ios app

Xcode 7.1 while archiving app, hangs at 'Copying Swift standard libraries'. Any idea why?
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Create .ipa for iPhone

I developed one application for iPhone. After I build I got .app file in build folder. My application name is Myapp, then i got Myapp.app file in the build folder. My problem is i want to create the .ipa file. how is that.. it is for to install…
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