December 18, 2012
Greetings!

I have this program that zips a file and everything works perfectly, if the files are small enough.  But, I am having to zip files that are getting more and more extreme in size and I am running out of memory.  Here is the output when executing a small program to zip a folder:

0:36:59.76>zipafile
Zipping file no 0 huge\0.pdf
** PLEASE WAIT FOR FILE #0 TO BE ZIPPED **
Zipping file no 1 huge\1.exe
** PLEASE WAIT FOR FILE #1 TO BE ZIPPED **
Zipping file no 2 huge\2.exe
** PLEASE WAIT FOR FILE #2 TO BE ZIPPED **
Zipping file no 3 huge\updates\p.zip
** PLEASE WAIT FOR FILE #3 TO BE ZIPPED **
Zipping file no 4 huge\updates\q.html
** PLEASE WAIT FOR FILE #4 TO BE ZIPPED **
Zipping file no 5 huge\updates\z.exe
** PLEASE WAIT FOR FILE #5 TO BE ZIPPED **
finished all files...
** PLEASE WAIT FOR ZIP FILE TO BE CREATED **
Error: Out of memory

0:37:56.26>

This is the program in question...

import std.stdio;
import std.file;
import std.date;
import std.zip;
import std.zlib;
import jic.libs.MyFile;

int main(char[][] args)
{

 char[] folder = r"c:\tmp\huge";
 ZipAFolder(folder);
 return 0;
}

void ZipAFolder(char[] zipFolder)
{
 char[] fdname = std.path.getDirName(zipFolder);
 char[][] allfiles = std.file.listdir(zipFolder,"*");
 char[] zipFile = zipFolder ~ ".zip";
 int FilesCnt = 0;

 std.zip.ZipArchive zr;
 zr = new std.zip.ZipArchive();
 int one = 0;
 foreach(char[] f; allfiles)
 {
   char[] f0 = std.string.replace(f,fdname ~ "\\","");  // Filename
   writefln("Zipping file no " ~ std.string.toString(one) ~ " " ~ f0);

   ArchiveMember am = new ArchiveMember();
   am.compressionMethod = 8;
   am.name = f0;
   //am.expandedData = cast(ubyte[]) f.read();
   am.expandedData = cast(ubyte[]) f.read();
   am.expandedSize = am.expandedData.length;
   FileData fd0 = GetFileInfo(f);
   long usedT0;
   if (fd0.creationTime > fd0.modifiedTime)
   {
     usedT0 = fd0.creationTime;
   }
   else
   {
     usedT0 = fd0.modifiedTime;
   }
   am.time = std.date.toDosFileTime(usedT0);
   zr.addMember(am);
   writefln(" ** PLEASE WAIT FOR FILE #" ~ std.string.toString(one) ~ " TO BE ZIPPED ** ");

   one++;
 }
 writefln("finished all files...");
 writefln(" ** PLEASE WAIT FOR ZIP FILE TO BE CREATED ** ");
 std.file.write(zipFile, cast(byte[])zr.build());
 writefln(" ** " ~ std.string.toString(one) ~ " FILES ZIPPED ** ");
 writefln(zipFile ~ " created.");
 //return 1;
}

As you can see, the last two writelns do not get printed because of the Out Of Memory.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

josé