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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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How do you browse a folder with hundreds of thousands of files on a Mac? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I downloaded an old website forum archive and it took hours to extract the zip into a folder. But now that it's extracted, finder is stuck on loading forever. I'm guessing this is because of the massive amount of files. From what I could recall while it was being extracted, most of these were PHP files. How do I smoothly browse this without my MacBook crying in pain

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

BTW those aren't actual PHP files, they're most likely HTML. PHP is what they're called when they're code on the live website but the tools that make these archives only copy a dump of the webpages. It should have renamed them but apparently didn't. You'll have to do the renaming instead in order to open them. It's also extremely likely that the links between the forum pages are also ending in .php and won't work (the tool was also supposed to have converted the links inside the files).