How to use diskspan bat

[Cesar82]

Originally Posted by LILU

Good day. Please advise whether this ‘.bat’ file is compatible with the latest version of DiskSpan (v2.0.2.3)?

"DiskSpan GUI (Executable)" is the direct successor to "DiskSpan BAT," so any version of DiskSpan GUI (1.0.0.0+) is newer and uses more recent compression tools, but retains some of the methods used in the BAT version.

[ReDsHanks2]

"Hello! I’ve been looking for answers regarding multiple .bin file compression. It's a bit confusing for me. I was wondering how to compress a game file into parts—for example, compressing 8GB down to 2GB.
​Instead of receiving the 2GB as a single file, I want to split it into four separate .bin files. Is this possible? If so, how? Do I need to use developer mode and split/masked it?, or is there a way to do it using CLS to separate it into four parts?

[Cesar82]

Originally Posted by ReDsHanks2

"Hello! I’ve been looking for answers regarding multiple .bin file compression. It's a bit confusing for me. I was wondering how to compress a game file into parts—for example, compressing 8GB down to 2GB.
​Instead of receiving the 2GB as a single file, I want to split it into four separate .bin files. Is this possible? If so, how? Do I need to use developer mode and split/masked it?, or is there a way to do it using CLS to separate it into four parts?

I'm not sure I understood your question correctly.

In the DiskSpan GUI (executable, not the BAT file), you can specify the size of the disks. That is, you can compress the 8 GB (considering that the compressed output without splitting would result in one 8 GB BIN file) into 4 parts of 2 GB each, simply by specifying a size of 2 GB for the first disk and 2 GB for the other disks as well.

Then, if you want everything in the same folder, move all the BIN files from the DISK_2, DISK_3, and DISK_4 folders to the DISK_1 folder (move all the BIN files to the first folder and delete the DISK_2 to DISK_4 folders).