Now this is interesting! I wasn't considering huge image files, most just "ordinary" ones like photos, screenshots, or graphs that would be common images to want to include with, for example, a markdown document. I'll read up on your links. Thanks!
A consideration that didn't occur to me initially: the archive file format might have a limit on file size. The archive file library might also have a limit on that. The original ZIP file format limited archive size to 4 GB; I read that the ZIP64 format extension <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)#ZIP64> raises that limit to 16 exabytes(!), and that Windows Vista and its successors build support for ZIP64-sized archives into Windows Explorer/File Explorer, and that macOS Sierra's built-in Archive Utility does not support ZIP64. Limits imposed by the file system can also be a problem. NTFS has no issues, but FAT32 limits file size to 4GB <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Maximal_sizes>; I reformat FAT32 thumb drives drives to exFAT format, which lifts that to 2^64-1 bytes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Features>(!). I don't want to think about cross-platform issues handling metadata such as NTFS attributes. I find that Windows 7 Windows Explorer and Windows 10 File Explorer clutter the Windows file cache when I ask them to process Zip archives of many hundreds of files or multiple gigabyte Zip files; basic operations slow to a crawl as a result, leading me to reboot Windows to recover the performance lost. I don't see such performance losses when I use 7-Zip instead. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/d691f7df-ad28-47df-82dd-ec43ba61b292n%40googlegroups.com.
