Windows 10: Format Factory question - Windows 11

I have the latest (I think) version of Format Factory V5.7.5 installed on my Windows 11 64-bit laptop. I am trying to join 4 files: File 1 is: 329,442 KB File 2 is: 160,463 KB File 3 is: 178,617 KB File 4 is: 55482 KB The resultant file is: 236,892 KB. I thought the out file would be much larger, probably close to the sum of the 4 input files. What controls the size of the output file; is there any further information I need to provide??

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How To Format A Write Protected Flash Memory ?

¿You already tried this one?...

Run CMD


1. diskpart
2. list disk

Then in the 3º step, put the correct number of disk in the list for the usb flash (if it's listed in disk 3, then you'll have to write select disk 3).

2. select disk #
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

with that commands you will format the flash drive in fat32, if you have a large drive you can select also "format fs=ntfs" in step 7.

good luck!

 

Making a task list for Format Factory?

The format of the slashes is correct for Format Factory's task list. That is how it is put into the *.task file by the software so that is how it must be.

If I can just get a text file with a list of files with the full path to every file, one per line, I might be able to use Excel to fix up the rest.

 

Making a task list for Format Factory?

There's a program called Format Factory which is the fastest multimedia format converter there is. The latest version is even better because it now features the ability to set the number of threads used. I have it set to 9 threads running on a Ryzen 5 3600. I'm converting 9 WMA and M4A audio files simultaneously to MP3.

While it's capable of loading up a few thousand files at once into its list, getting them into it is the iffy bit. It crashes quite often doing that but once successfully loaded it reliably churns through them all until its done.

It can save all the files to be processed into a task list, which is simply a plain text file with the extension .task The task file is formatted like this

"-> MP3" "High quality" "L:/Music/ALBUMS/Album1/00 song.m4a" "L:/Music/ALBUMS/Album1\00 song.mp3"

Line after line, every file with its path on its own line. Note that the final forward slash is flipped to a backslash in the output section.

What I want to do is get a list of all the M4A and WMA files I want to convert and put them into a text file with the formatting for a Format Factory task list. Then I should be able to load that list, click Start and come back some hours later to delete all the old files.

I'm thinking it should be possible with a batch file in Windows 10 x64