> > > It seems to take a long time to fix a rom that is fairly
> > > large.
> >
> > Depends on the fixoperation. Name/case changes are done without recompressing
> > the zip. Add/Remove Operations require some zip/unzip (for backup) operations
> > which may take some time. You may increase the speed by enabling the zipcache
> in
> > settings->zipsettings.
> > Really slow operations are: checksum->sha/md5/integrity checks, advanced->fix
> > missing scans all sets and using the full zip structure scan in
> > settings->zipsettings. Usually you don't need these options.
> >
> > Roman Scherzer
> > ClrMamePro
> >
>
>
> Hi Roman,
>
> thanks for your reply.
>
> I'll bump up the zipcache and maybe lower the zip compression level from 9 to
> see if that speeds things up. For some reason, I didn't make the connection
> between the slower speed/maximal compression tradeoff in the zip settings.
>
> I guess I'm kinda impatient to wait for compression.
> Whenever I "rar" things up I almost always set it to
> store because I hate to wait (especially when it's a
> large dataset like 4GB)
>
> Don
>


I usually use no recompression since it's faster and I use zipmax afterwards anyway ;)

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro