wimlib

@ Synchronicity

I just came yesterday to take a look if there is some new version of this fantastic tool and I found there is a new version wimlib-1.13.1 from May 6, 2019.

Thanks Synchronicity for the continue development of your great tool, but unfortunatelly I can't find any topic related to new ...

@ Synchronicity

About:
--update-of will not work if you specify the WIM file being created. But I suppose I can make it work in that case, by ignoring --update-of.
I don't see a need to make this change, please keep it as it is now.

Thanks for your answer, After reading it, I made some tests ...

Thanks for your answer:

The problem is that the file last modified timestamp is unreliable on Windows. This is already explained in the documentation for the --update-of option. But perhaps I should also make wimlib print a warning whenever that option is used on Windows, if not make it a no-op ...

@Synchronicity

I made same captures of my Win7x64 partition/drive and also found same behaviour but only 4 files have different size:

Path Bytes

Users\Propietario\AppData\Roaming\AVAST Software\Avast\Cache\Cache\index 524 656

Windows\Prefetch\AgAppLaunch.db 334 168

Windows\ServiceProfiles ...

@Synchronicity

If I open both dwm files using 7-zip v18.5, this is a list of files that have different size on Win10x64_Delta.dwm compared to Win10x64_Delta+Update.dwm

Files on delta that are 0 size on delta + update (25 files):
(Remember 0 size is same as unchanged from reference wim)

Path ...

Hi Synchronicity

I have been doing my OSs backup making first capture as OS-backup.wim and latter using update-of=OS-backup.wim:-1 and appending them as a new index on OS-backup.wim, and never had a single problem when deploying an index to HD (after formating it), this approach let me delete any ...

Hi Synchronicity

First I want to thanks you for this fantastic tool.

I have been using wimlib-imagex since your first post on rebot.pro, recently I updated wimlib-imagex from v1.12 to v1.13 beta 5, and reading the documents found this new option --create for wimappend or append, at first seen its ...