When my modpack is unzipping, it takes a dang long time.

[Kevin42]

I made a little pack for my friends here http://www.technicpack.net/api/modpack/new-personal-pack , and it has no problems downloading, it just takes roughly 30 minutes for it to unzip. 

[plowmanplow]

Well, it really shouldn't take 30 minutes. Took less than 2 for me, but I'm using a decent SSD. The problem comes from the steaming mess that is millenaire. That dude refuses to package his mod as a noramal ZIP or JAR file and thus the extraction lib has to pull out nearly 3000 tiny little files for the mod in the mods folder. This takes a while.

[Kevin42]

Well, it really shouldn't take 30 minutes. Took less than 2 for me, but I'm using a decent SSD. The problem comes from the steaming mess that is millenaire. That dude refuses to package his mod as a noramal ZIP or JAR file and thus the extraction lib has to pull out nearly 3000 tiny little files for the mod in the mods folder. This takes a while.

Is there a workaround for this?

[plowmanplow]

When dealing with Millenaire in the past I believe I was able to zip it up and it still worked. Been a while so the memory is fuzzy.

[Kevin42]

When dealing with Millenaire in the past I believe I was able to zip it up and it still worked. Been a while so the memory is fuzzy.

Ok, I tried putting the millenaire jar in the mods folder, zipped up the millenaire and millenaire custom folders, but now the items have names like "item.ml_denier.name" and the itemgroup is "itemGroup.Millenaire. I can place blocks but there is no message indicating millenaire is installed correctly.

[Kevin42]

Ok, never mind, i did it in the wrong folder :V

Edited June 30, 2014 by Kevin42