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Zipping large file with winrar
It took around 6 hours to zip 21.5 GB file and resulting rar file size is 4GB. It took around 18 minutes to extract zipped file. The file is a SQL server database backup.
Converting file length into User friendly format (GB, MB, KB, Bytes)
Use following function to convert file length in bytes to user friendly format
private string FormatByteSize(long length)
{
const int KB = 1024;
const int MB = 1024 * KB;
const int GB = 1024 * MB;
if (length > GB)
{
return (length / GB).ToString("0.00") + " GB";
}
else if (length > MB)
{
return (length / MB).ToString("0.00") + " MB";
}
else if (length > KB)
{
return (length / KB).ToString("0.00") + " KB";
}
return length.ToString()+" Bytes";
}
