sfx - GamerDuck123/copyparty GitHub Wiki
the self-contained "binary" (recommended!) copyparty-sfx.py will unpack itself and run copyparty, assuming you have python installed of course
you can reduce the sfx size by repacking it; see ./docs/devnotes.md#sfx-repack
copyparty.exe
download copyparty.exe (win8+) or copyparty32.exe (win7+)
can be convenient on machines where installing python is problematic, however is not recommended -- if possible, please use copyparty-sfx.py instead
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copyparty.exe runs on win8 or newer, was compiled on win10, does thumbnails + media tags, and is currently safe to use, but any future python/expat/pillow CVEs can only be remedied by downloading a newer version of the exe
- on win8 it needs vc redist 2015, on win10 it just works
- some antivirus may freak out (false-positive), possibly Avast, AVG, and McAfee
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dangerous: copyparty32.exe is compatible with windows7, which means it uses an ancient copy of python (3.7.9) which cannot be upgraded and should never be exposed to the internet (LAN is fine)
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dangerous and deprecated: copyparty-winpe64.exe lets you run copyparty in WinPE and is otherwise completely useless
meanwhile copyparty-sfx.py instead relies on your system python which gives better performance and will stay safe as long as you keep your python install up-to-date
then again, if you are already into downloading shady binaries from the internet, you may also want my minimal builds of ffmpeg and ffprobe which enables copyparty to extract multimedia-info, do audio-transcoding, and thumbnails/spectrograms/waveforms, however it's much better to instead grab a recent official build every once ina while if you can afford the size
zipapp
another emergency alternative, copyparty.pyz has less features, is slow, requires python 3.7 or newer, worse compression, and more importantly is unable to benefit from more recent versions of jinja2 and such (which makes it less secure)... lots of drawbacks with this one really -- but it does not unpack any temporary files to disk, so it may just work if the regular sfx fails to start because the computer is messed up in certain funky ways, so it's worth a shot if all else fails
run it by doubleclicking it, or try typing python copyparty.pyz in your terminal/console/commandline/telex if that fails
it is a python zipapp meaning it doesn't have to unpack its own python code anywhere to run, so if the filesystem is busted it has a better chance of getting somewhere
- but note that it currently still needs to extract the web-resources somewhere (they'll land in the default TEMP-folder of your OS)