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Shell zip with unattended password
I have a script that runs some automatic zip generation using shell zip. The request is to add automatic encryption with password. From what I understand, the option -e is the right one, but it asks ...
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How do I create a Windows XP compressed folder in Winzip?
When you create a compressed folder in Windows XP it appears to be a standard zip file but it's not. That said WinZip 9.0 (dated 2004) can read it. However the Windows XP compressed folder support ...
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Show the encryption method used on a zip file in WinZip 9.0
I received a zip with an encrypted file inside.
How do I determine which encryption method was used on it in WinZip 9.0? I've cruised all the menus and options and see no easy way to tell this ...
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Installing WinZip 15.0 with WinZip.wzmul
I am having a hard time getting my WinZip installation to recognize the WinZip.wzmul Multi-User Registration File. I am on a Windows XP and have put the WinZip.wzmul inside of C:\Program ...
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How to do “legacy” ZIP compression with 7zip?
We have an old application that requires zip files to be "legacy" format. I would really love to get rid of the adware ridden WinZip and use 7zip. However, I don't know which compression options and ...
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Does the RAR compression algorithm compress better than the ZIP compression algorithm?
I took 3 test files and ZIPped them. With the 3 test files again I RARred them. Each .RAR archive is smaller than the corresponding .ZIP archive.
Does the RAR compression algorithm give a better ...
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Why would WinRAR and WinZIP create a compressed file of the same size if they use different methods to compress data? [closed]
I compressed a test file with both WinRAR and WinZIP. To my surprise, the resulting files were the exact same size, down to the byte.
Why did this happen?
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How to determine if zip is encrypted by AES
I have to determine encryption method of ZIP files I'm receiving.
Mostly I'm interested to know if AES was used or not...
Any idea ?
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Maintain folder structure with WinRAR
Suppose my folder structure is:
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-B
--C
---D
and in the D folder I have a file, say test.txt. How can I add this test.txt file to an archive so that the folder's hierarchy is also maintained in ...
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How might some of my files been WinZipped -> Unzipped and replaced by all NULLs?
Today I reinstalled my Windows 7 64-bit OS and I installed it on a dedicated partition without any of my data files. Beforehand I ZIPPED my data files (using WinZip) to get them off of the old OS ...
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How do I stop using Winzip and let Windows handle .zip files natively?
Anytime I download a .zip file or create a compressed folder, my PC makes it a Winzip file, which is no good because I don't want to pay their fee to get the full version (the version I have was a ...
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How secure is winzip encryption? [closed]
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Is zip's encryption really bad?
Just how secure is winzip (http://www.winzip.com/) encryption?
Can you point me to any articles or anything like that where a zip ...
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Running WZUNZIP.EXE (WinZip command line unzipper) on a machine that doesn't have WinZip installed
I would like to be able to unzip files from the command line (via a batch file in this instance) on a Windows Server 2003 machine that does not have WinZip installed.
It seems that three files are ...
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Comparing zip/compression utilities [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Best compression applications for Windows?
I've used WinZip, WinRar, and 7zip for packaging and compression. I know the first two are payware, and the last is open ...
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When extracting multiple self extracting .EXEs with 7-Zip, how do I specify to only overwrite if newer?
I have a bunch of self extracting .EXE files that I'm using 7-Zip to extract. I only want files to be overwritten with newer versions. The 7-Zip extract dialog only gives me the option to overwrite ...
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Winzip Legacy Format in Ubuntu?
Hi I have a script that uses the ZIP command in linux (ubuntu), and changes the name to make it executable for a certain program.
Now i realized the reason this program was not unzipping and ...
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How to determine total file space saved in a directory
I'm running on a Windows 7 computer and there is a directory that contains more than 10,000 compressed files (RAR, ZIP) with more added on a daily basis.
Is there any application or script available ...
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robocopy can’t find newly zipped file for copy
I am working with a batch file that is being used to copy files from several remote servers to one central repository using robocopy. I am trying to zip the contents of a folder and then copy it but ...
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“Unsupported compression method 98” error when unzipping a file. What tools support it, other than WinZip?
I'm getting an error message: "unsupported compression method 98" when unzipping a file somebody sent to me. I've tried both an older version of WinZip, and 7-Zip 4.65.
(Update: I've also tried ...
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Using WinZip, is there anyway to extract and overwrite just the newer files on a remote FTP server
I have a zip of a pretty large website. I FTP the zip over to the server and then unzip it and extract to the website folder but this is very slow.
Is there anyway to just extract and copy the files ...
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Why the huge discrepancy in size between two similar zip files
I use WinZip to zip entire directories of code and send them to a fellow programmer. He makes changes and sends the directories of code back to me. Ignoring the fact that this is not a good way to ...
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Extract files from WInZip, perform action, then extract next file
I've got a zip file that contains hundreds of files. Originally the files were in their own directories. Unfortunately, whoever zipped the file did not preserve the directory structure and some of the ...
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How can I remove empty paths from a zip file?
I have a zip file that contains a empty path, which I want to be rid of. How can I clear it, while maintaining the rest of the zip? When I open the item in winzip I cannot see the empty file, but ...
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How secure is encrypted zip if some of the files have known plaintext?
If I create an encrypted zip file with Winzip (say with 256 bit AES encryption), and some of the files contained in it have publicly known contents (e.g. open source 3rd party libraries), does this ...
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Explorer.exe crash, immediately followed by crash of DrWatson Postmortem debugger (they named it???)
While unzipping files on a computer running windows xp, about half the time the above error in the title will occur, in which case I have to restart the computer to resume interaction.
Why is this ...
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How do I reassemble a zip file that has been emailed in multiple parts?
I received 3 emails each containing part of a zip file. The extensions end in .z00, .z01 and .z02. (Emailed as such to get around the typical 10Mb attachment limit per email.)
I have put all 3 files ...
