Command crop

The last versions are wrong (ransomware? a wrong script?). Cut them off. Carefully.

Quick summary

crop permanently deletes the most recent versions of an archive, keeping only those up to -until. Dry run by default.

Power user usage

• -kill perform the actual crop (default: dry run)
• -to tiny.zpaq reduce into another file (safer)
• -until X discard every version > X
• -maxsize X manually cut at X (RISKY)
• -force crop in place (no backup: VERY RISKY!)

Lo spiegone

Dispatched as command + to crop().

Real-world examples

Dry run, just infos

zpaqfranz crop z:\1.zpaq

Reduce up to version 100 into another file

zpaqfranz crop z:\1.zpaq -to d:\2.zpaq -until 100 -kill

Reduce to the first 100.000 bytes

zpaqfranz crop z:\1.zpaq -to d:\2.zpaq -maxsize 100k -kill

Crop in place (NO BACKUP! RISKY!)

zpaqfranz crop z:\1.zpaq -until 2 -kill -force