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My ZIM file is too big, what should I do?</translate>|answer=<translate><!--T:26--> | My ZIM file is too big, what should I do?</translate>|answer=<translate><!--T:26--> | ||
USB flash drives and memory cards are often formatted using the FAT32 filesystem which can't store files bigger than 4GB. Kiwix is able to deal with 2GB splitted ZIM files. The | USB flash drives and memory cards are often formatted using the FAT32 filesystem which can't store files bigger than 4GB. Kiwix is able to deal with 2GB splitted ZIM files. The split ZIM files must be named xxx.zimaa, xxx.zimab, xxx.zimac, etc. To split a ZIM file you may use:</translate> | ||
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* On Microsoft Windows: [http://www. | * On Microsoft Windows: </translate>[http://www.fastfilejoiner.com/ FFSJ] or [http://www.hjsplit.org/ HJ-Split] (slower option); on Windows 10, if you have [https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/ubuntu/9nblggh4msv6 Bash on Ubuntu] installed, you can use the GNU/Linux commands below. (in BASH you can access your drives with /mnt/c for drive C: and /mnt/d fort drive D: and so forth...) | ||
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* On Apple Mac | * On Apple Mac OS X: </translate>[http://loekjehe.home.xs4all.nl/Split&Concat/ Split&Concat] | ||
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* On GNU/Linux | * On GNU/Linux in the console:</translate><source lang="bash">split --bytes=2000M my_big_file.zim my_big_file.zim</source> | ||
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You can also download a pre-split version of the ZIM file by downloading a pre-indexed/portable ZIP file and copy the chunks from the directory "data/content".</translate> | |||
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How can I build a ZIM file by myself?</translate>|answer=<translate><!--T:8--> | How can I build a ZIM file by myself?</translate>|answer=<translate><!--T:8--> | ||
To export articles from Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, please go to their [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book Special:Book]. For any other use case, this is unfortunately still too complicated (in short: Parsoid needs to be [ | To export articles from Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, please go to their [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book Special:Book]. For any other use case, this is unfortunately still too complicated (in short: Parsoid needs to be [<tvar|1>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Setup</> installed], then [https://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/other/ci/master/tree/mwoffliner/mwoffliner.js mwoffliner] + zimwriterfs). Please read [http://openzim.org/Build_your_ZIM_file this page] if you want to have some information.</translate>}} | ||
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How to install a pre-indexed ZIM file on Mac | How to install a pre-indexed ZIM file on Mac OS X?</translate>|answer=<translate><!--T:12--> | ||
Move or copy the "data" directory in "/Applications/Kiwix.app/Contents/". You will probably need to go to the Kiwix "library" to load the ZIM content.</translate>}} | Move or copy the "data" directory in "/Applications/Kiwix.app/Contents/". You will probably need to go to the Kiwix "library" to load the ZIM content.</translate>}} | ||
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I have downloaded a ZIP file (pre-indexed ZIM file) but I can't unzip it, the file seems to be corrupted. What should I do?</translate>|answer=<translate><!--T:17--> | I have downloaded a ZIP file (pre-indexed ZIM file) but I can't unzip it, the file seems to be corrupted. What should I do?</translate>|answer=<translate><!--T:17--> | ||
Use an unpacking software which supports the ZIP64 format (ZIP format for big files), like for example [http://www.7-zip.org/ 7-zip]. If this still fails, then your file was corrupted during the transfer, please restart the download using BitTorrent, then it will work.</translate>}} | Use an unpacking software which supports the ZIP64 format (ZIP format for big files), like for example [http://www.7-zip.org/ 7-zip]. If this still fails, then your file was corrupted during the transfer, please restart the download using BitTorrent, then it will work.</translate>}} | ||
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How do I check the integrity of my ZIM file?</translate>|answer=<translate><!--T:43--> | |||
You can retrieve the checksums for each file we serve online using this pattern: <source>kiwix-filename.zim.mirrorlist</source>Example: <source>https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_novid_2018-06.zim.mirrorlist</source></translate>}} | |||
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Your BitTorrent client does not support web seeds (correctly), please try with a better one (for example, [http://deluge-torrent.org/ Deluge]).</translate>}} | Your BitTorrent client does not support web seeds (correctly), please try with a better one (for example, [http://deluge-torrent.org/ Deluge]).</translate>}} | ||
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Where are located, on my computer, the content files I have downloaded?</translate>|answer=<translate> | |||
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If you have used the Kiwix library, the content are stored:</translate> | |||
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* On OS X:</translate> <source lang="bash">/Users/<LOGIN>/Library/Application Support/Kiwix/Profiles/<PROFILE>/data/</source> | |||
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* On GNU/Linux:</translate> <source lang="bash">/home/<LOGIN>/.www.kiwix.org/kiwix/<PROFILE>/data/</source> | |||
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* On Windows:</translate> <source lang="bash">C:Documents and Settings<LOGIN>Application Datawww.kiwix.orgKiwixProfiles<PROFILE>data</source>}} | |||
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