If I used windows, I would totally do this…

    • @[email protected]
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      279 months ago

      I’d buy winrar just because it has served me very well and all for free, for at least a decade even if I use mostly 7zip now. They earned that license fee

    • @[email protected]
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      149 months ago

      on windows I use peazip because I can right click context menu > extract to smart new folder - does 7zip do that? if so I’d switch back

      • DopamineDeficient
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        59 months ago

        Depending on what you mean with “smart”, when I used Windows 7zip also offered to extract into a new folder through a context menu

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          149 months ago

          In this context (IIRC) smart means “if this zip contains a single folder with contents, directly extract that folder, but if the zip contains files and/or folders, extract all that to a new folder named the same as the zip file”.

          Some people zip folders while some people zip the files in a folder. Smart extraction just handles both automatically.

      • @stufkes
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        19 months ago

        7zip doesn’t work well with win11. Read somewhere that the developer refuses to do something about it, but no idea. Went with nanazip, which is derived from 7zip

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        Seems to. MB3 and you have Extract which does a folder name and places them in that, or Extract Here which puts all the files in your current directory

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      9 months ago

      Software pirates still love it for some reason. You’d think they’d use non-proprietary archival programs.

      • ares35
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        29 months ago

        recovery records are an essential feature for… uh… certain ‘distribution methods’ about which we are forbidden to speak of.

    • stebo
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      19 months ago

      or unzip your files just the normal way? why do you need a program?