Memes

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[–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 2 years ago

But still buy winRAR for the meme

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[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Better donate to 7zip lol

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[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

If I win the lottery they both get some.

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago

Sharing means less for 7zip, not approved

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[–] WallEx@feddit.de 22 points 2 years ago

And donate a ton of money

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

I dont know what a smart folder is.
But you can extract to ./[archive name]

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[–] adamantris@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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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[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 14 points 2 years 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.

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[–] stufkes@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years 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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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago*

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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[–] WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Or gzip like the sane linux person

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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

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

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[–] ares35@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Does "the normal way" support anything other that zip and rar?

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[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

If you don't want to spend as much time waiting for things to uncompress. Or if you want your compressed files to be smaller (and also compress faster).

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