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submitted 10 months ago by furycd001@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

If I used windows, I would totally do this....

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[-] towerful@programming.dev 175 points 10 months ago

Or use 7zip like any sane person

[-] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 10 months ago

But still buy winRAR for the meme

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 29 points 10 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

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 22 points 10 months ago
[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 18 points 10 months ago

If I win the lottery they both get some.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

Sharing means less for 7zip, not approved

[-] WallEx@feddit.de 22 points 10 months ago

And donate a ton of money

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 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

[-] towerful@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago

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

[-] adamantris@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 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

[-] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 14 points 10 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@lemmy.world 1 points 10 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

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] ares35@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Or gzip like the sane linux person

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

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

[-] towerful@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago

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

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

well I've never encountered anything like that so...

[-] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

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).

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

fair I suppose

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