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Originally Posted by battists

What I'd like to see happen is this:

After we figure out what makes the most sense, someone should be able to write a simple batch file using WinZip's command line utility or some such, that just zips everything up.

Then, I can talk to Markus about potentially including this in future patches or releases, or even somehow building it into the game engine, like a "prepare league file for human GMs" button or something.

I don't understand why most everyone in this thread is talking about copying and deleting files when all you have to do is just archive what you need like battists says above. That's what I used to do and all it took was one click. For example, my old batch file:

del "C:\k\downloads\KBL1007.lg.zip"
"E:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRar" a -r -ao -ac -ep1 -xp*.html "C:\k\downloads\KBL1007.lg.zip" "E:\Program Files\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP 6.5\KBL1007.lg"

Now of course it probably won't be as simple now with all the folders you can leave out, but the same idea should work just fine.

Originally Posted by SC_Dawg

Just a FYI

I compressed all of the .dat files of my test league using powerarchiver, winrar and Windows XP's built in .ZIP function.

Here are the sizes

Before compression 63,235kb <---
.gz 12,686k
.zip 12,512k
.rar 10,010k

This does not include any of the non .dat files but for league files it appears that .rar is the best compression unless there is a way to compress even more that I am not aware of.

BTW before everybody freaks out this is the Major Leagues with every bell and whistle turned on.

Try tar.gz and .7z. As I said in Fidel's tutorial thread, they decrease file sizes much more than even rars do. The only problem is your members will need a program that can decompress whatever format you choose.