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submitted 2 years 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 176 points 2 years ago

Or use 7zip like any sane person

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

But still buy winRAR for the meme

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 years 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 2 years ago
[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 years ago

If I win the lottery they both get some.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Sharing means less for 7zip, not approved

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

And donate a ton of money

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] adamantris@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years 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 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.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 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

[-] stufkes@lemmy.world 1 points 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

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

Or gzip like the sane linux person

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] 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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