wimlib

Hi, You're correct that there was a change in behavior. To work around an obscure Windows bug, wimlib now removes the DACL from directories being extracted that already existed. This normally makes no difference in the final result, since wimlib will normally set new security descriptors at the end ...

wimlib doesn't usually use temporary files, but it does use roughly 500-1000 bytes of memory per file processed. So, WIM images with huge numbers of files can't be captured or applied in limited memory situations. Do you know where the program is segfaulting, exactly? Maybe you could check with a de...

Fixed in wimlib v1.8.3.

Hi, This isn't possible, currently. You can update a single image, or export a whole image from one WIM file to another, but you can't export individual files or directories from one image to another. There is a hack possible that would avoid recompression, but not the need to extract and recapture ...

Great! I'll probably be officially releasing v1.8.3 within a week or two; then fewer people will run into this problem. It's been a little delayed due to other changes.

Hi, Are you running wimapply on Windows or on Linux? If Linux (in NTFS-3g mode), there is a known issue with wimlib v1.8.1 and v1.8.2 where the applied image may cause problems with Windows. This is fixed in the latest BETA. If Windows, there shouldn't be any NTFS consistency problems at all. - sync...

Hi, Glad to hear you find the project so useful. I've been working on it much longer than I expected when I started, but I've learned a lot from it. The compressors and decompressors are generally the most interesting part. I was amused to see recently that the 7-Zip author referred to my code when ...

Thanks for the suggestion! The latest BETA (wimlib-1.8.3-BETA8) now supports this.

Thanks for the suggestions. I've added the three additional patterns and also made the fallback be "uncompressed" rather than XPRESS4K if the image does not appear to be Windows 10 (or later). I haven't yet had time to fully test the changes but feel free to try them out in wimlib-1.8.3-BE...

wimlib v1.8.3-BETA2 will automatically attach wof.sys or wofadk.sys to the target volume (if needed) and will also automatically force XPRESS4K compression on selected files for compatibility with the Windows bootloader.