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bitsgalore.org is a personal blog at bitsgalore.org about data and systems. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Does Microsoft OneDrive export large ZIP files that are corrupt? (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post asking whether Microsoft OneDrive produces malformed large zip files. One commenter cites it while explaining that PeaZip can extract files the native extractor rejects.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
digital preservation, file formats
Most-linked posts?
- Does Microsoft OneDrive export large ZIP files that are corrupt? (2020)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-09-25
What Hacker News says?
Currently using it under Linux because it's able to extract the malformed large zip files generated by onedrive, that give a corrupted file error when you try to open them using the native file extractor. See https://www.bitsgalore.org/2020/03/11/does-microsoft-onedriv...
Comment linking /2020/03/11/does-microsoft-onedrive-export-large-ZIP-files-that-are-corrupt
on “PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software”Submitted PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools (2021) as a story · 186 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does Microsoft OneDrive export large ZIP files that are corrupt? (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does Microsoft OneDrive export large ZIP files that are corrupt? (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resurrecting the first Dutch web index (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dutch newspaper wipes out articles citing fabricated sources as a story · 1 points
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