Questions tagged [zip]
Compression and archive format that stores one or more files into a single file, usually with a .zip file extension.
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Is there any way to compare zipped folders to unzipped file directory?
I know that Windows Explorer, 7-Zip, Beyond Compare, and others can look into a zipped directory to see the file structure and file names.
Is there any way to compare those file names to the unzipped ...
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WinRAR - Span Archives instead of splitting (Internet Archive)
I'm having a small issue trying to back up data to the Internet Archive.
I have tried to used 7zip to split files into certain sizes (such as 7G or 25G) to upload better, but IA won't accept ...
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Exclude all folders containing "discarded" with 7z
When I do
7z a test.zip -x!*discarded* test
with
test/
test/a.txt
test/subfolder/
test/subfolder/a.txt
test/subfolder/discarded/
test/subfolder/discarded/a.txt
test/subfolder2/a.txt
test/subfolder2/...
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Determine format of uncompressed ZIP file with ffprobe
I am working on a project where I need to handle ZIP archives that contain media files. Specifically, I have two files, video1.hevc and video2.mp4. For testing purposes, I created two ZIP archives ...
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How to encrypt folder files using zip.exe [closed]
Example -path1 - desktop/file_source
Path2 - desktop/e_data_source.
How can we encrypt files from desktop/file_source to desktope_data_source path using zip.exe in cmd.
Could you please help me.? Is ...
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Why does zip --exclude only exclude files in the folder but not the folder itself?
I have the following command run in the bash shell which excludes the files in the folder scripts/. I tried the answer in Zip command for excluding directories and files but unfortunately it did not ...
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Split zip archives using WinRar vs 7-Zip
I created a split zip archive using WinRar and 7-Zip.
WinRar creates
archive.zip
archive.z01
archive.z02
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7-Zip creates
archive.zip.001
archive.zip.002
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With Total Commander I could enter(CTRL+...
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Preventing Windows from displaying "insert last disk" message
I inserted a USB stick into my PC. The USB stick contained a single ZIP file only (not part of multiple ZIP files). The ZIP file was somehow corrupted. Windows Explorer showed this message immediately ...
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Zipping a folder and sub-directories not working without sudo?
I wrote a python script using Amazon's AWS Boto3 SDK to download files from an S3 bucket and puts them in a folder (in a directory within my home dir). For reference, the function I used was the s3 ...
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How do I extract a multi-level compressed file (recursion) with 7-zip in one command?
If possible, how can a file that's been compressed in multiple levels, like the following example.7z file, be extracted in a single command? Assume there is only one final uncompressed file.
example....
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How to modify internal XML of PPTX files without corrupting them?
I opened this question in SO site but it seems is more appropiate here.
Inside an .pptx file we have this structure
I'm trying to edit the content of internal slide2.xml in ..\ppt\slides.
The slide2....
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Add a top level empty directory to a zip file on Windows
When creating a zip file with Windows, it gives an error message if adding an empty folder and excludes it. It is no problem if you add a directory containing a child directory that is empty, but if ...
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Compress each directory to its own Zip file from command line
I have a directory of directories. I want to compress each of them in to its own zip file, keeping the same name.
I don't want it to be recursive, I just want to compress dozens of folders in the same ...
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If I ZIP a folder in NTFS, is the ZIP file NTFS?
If I zip a folder from an NTFS partition, can it be extracted on a device or OS that can't read the NTFS filesystem?
More generally, do zip files preserve the filesystem of the unzipped folder in some ...
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What's the minimal (and fastest) way to touch a big file just enough to change it's HASH?
I have big files (.iso, .mkv, etc) for which I need to change the HASH, so that they are not detected in a potential DHT network during transfer.
One obvious way is to add them to a zip file and break ...
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Using the built in zip extraction in Windows 11, extracting to a network share on samba doesn't allow execution of a program
Using the built in zip extraction in Windows 11, extracting to a network share on samba doesn't allow execution of a program, however.
Extracting with Winrar works fine.
I have a zip file with an ...
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Batch to rar files based on total size
Looking for a batch script that allows to get files from a folder (.\source) and create a .rar file on other folder (.\target), with those files, but with a maximum given size of the all files inside ...
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How to batch create folders to move in a .zip file and a .pdf sharing the same name (minus extension)
I have about 1000 ESRI shapefiles and each one is associated with a written report that I have saved as a pdf.
The zipped file and the associated pdf share the same filename (minus the extension).
I ...
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Cannot Zip folder that is too deep in subfolders
I am unable to zip a folder if the folder is too deep in subfolders. My company uses Dropbox, so we have a lot of folders in folders. For example, a path to a folder might look like this:
C:\Users\...
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File shows up in zipinfo but not unzip?
I have a huge (~300GB) zipped archive and I'm trying to extract a few files from it while ignoring the rest. Running zipinfo on the archive brings up a list of files but when I try to extract one of ...
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A zip file which shows all files in archive root directory from subfolders in a windows file explorer view
Some one shared me a zip file shown in the windows file explorer that all the files in the subdir are placed in the archive root dir. The hierachy is like the following box:
│ fileone.txt......dir/...
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absolute fastest way to zip (not compress) larger files in 7zip?
I need to know the absolute fastest way to zip (not compress) larger files in 7-Zip.
By large files I mean 1Tb or so, this will be done often (multiple times per day).
I tried WinZip because it has ...
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Is it possible to recover a zip file corrupted by GnuPG?
I recently started encrypting a zip file with:
gpg --symmetric my_file.zip
It was taking a long time - the archive is about 300 MB - and so I decided to cancel the operation part way through. The zip ...
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How to prevent Windows from throwing an error everytime it tries to copy a file named with illegal characters?
I'm extracting a medium sized ZIP file which contains thousands of tiny files with different names. Some of these files have names which include illegal character like ":". This causes ...
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Creating a script for Windows 11 to gzip some files using 7-zip then move and replace them in another folder
I have the following directory structure:
Parent Folder: Project
Children of Project: data, rawData
Inside of rawData I have: index.html, settings.html, user.html, script.js, style.css and other files....
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Extract compressed file - Autohotkey
I have WinRar installed and I would like to know if the program has command line functions to extract the compressed files using a hotkey with autohotkey. I haven't found this, so I've seen other ...
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How can I extract a .zip file with 7zip with a cmd command?
I have the following problem:
I have a test.zip
This test .zip should be extracted to a "test" folder.
But i have a test1, test2..., test23. So no matter how its named, the folder should ...
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Transfer a .zipped .CHM file still make it unreadable
I create a .CHM file on a online computer at vagon.io, and then transfer it to my local computer. But when opening it, I get "Unknown Publisher" error and the page contents are blank.
I find ...
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Optimizing 7z command line options for speed and compression ratio of large .bak files
I am currently dealing with a multitude of .bak files, each averaging around 300GB in size, and I need to compress them using the 7z command line. My primary objective is to strike a balance between ...
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opening a self-opening, password protected archive with .zip.exe extension on a Mac
I am trying to open a password protected file:
unzip -v -P password123 filename.zip.exe
The output I get is:
Archive: filename.zip.exe End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file ...
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Unix: zip folder ignoring folder structure and excluding a subdirectory
I want to create a zip ignoring the folder structure, and excluding the content of a specific subfolder.
I have tried:
zip -rj /path/to/target.zip /path/to/source -x "/path/to/source/subfolder/*&...
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zip each file in a folder with max. 100 MB and use random names for the zip file
is there a way or multiple ways how to zip the files in each folder and save it with a random chosen name?
An example would be: i have three main folders with names A, B, C. Each folder contains a ...
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How to verify that multipart zip file is valid
I want to verify that a multipart zip file that I've created is valid, but because of the 4 GB output limit imposed by my filesystem, I am unable to do so.
I used the following command to create a ...
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Delete a case insensitive filename from a .zip file
I appreciate the feedback, especially about asking better questions. I've been reading more about better etiquette here, and hope I'm not breaking any rules now. But I realize I worded my original ...
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How to get zip to update file in an archive even if the file on the filesystem is older
If I have the following zip:
my.zip
|- folder
| `- to-update.txt
`- some-other-file.txt
and a folder structure:
working-directory
`- folder
`- to-update.txt
I wish to copy the file to-update....
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exe file does not open after extracting from an archive
I came across a very strange situation for me.
I transferred all of the files uploaded on a disk with medical scans (CAT scan) to my flash drive and then from the flash drive to my PC.
These are the ...
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Zip file to verify if not modified
I want to zip source code of my application and provide it to my client. I want to somehow assign to it an id or whatever which would describe the status of zipped files in official agreement between ...
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Trying to zip only an extension
im looking for a solution, since I'm changing all my comics cbr to cbz I'm using 7zip, but i have a problem: sometimes some cbr have many layers of subfolders inside.
Im trying to find a way to just ...
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Why might I not be able to delete a file from an unextracted zip folder?
I have a zip folder (40-50GB) that contains a set of data files and a single (1 KB) .ahk script. The .ahk script was used to unencrypt the data files in a folder before creating a zip of that folder ...
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What compression options does 7Zip use when you add files with a drag-drop?
When you create an archive with 7Zip, you get a dialog showing you a bunch of compression options. However when you drag-drop some files into an already-open archive in a 7Zip window, you just get a &...
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hashcat pkzip2 token length exeption
I have a ZipCrypto-encrypted archive and I lost the password. I'm trying to crack it using zip2john and hashcat but I got this error. Is there any way to fix it?
Hashfile './test2.txt' on line 1 ($...
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7z batch file create individual( 7z or zip) with a master PW
I use this command with notepad. Save it as 7z.bat in a folder you want to individually .7z or .zip the files. With -p{pasword} -mhe *.txt
@ECHO OFF
FOR %%i IN (*.*) DO (
ECHO "%%i" | FIND ...
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How to see all the files inside a zip file using SFTP command?
I am trying to list all of the files inside remote server using SFTP. However the commands I tried so far such as unzip -l, less, zipinfo does not working with an error of "invalid command". ...
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How to zip files in a specific date range
I'm looking for a way to zip files in a specific date range using a script.
For example I would need something that zips files in a specified folder with date modified being 2020.
I tried the solution ...
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Why Does 7zip give the error that certain files inside a zip downloaded from Dropbox are corrupted when they clearly are not?
My wife has a ton of data that she has worked on over the course of a decade saved on Dropbox, and we are trying to back this up to a local external drive so that we have two copies. I've downloaded ...
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Unable to decompress Password Protected Zips
I used Coolpad Note 3 lite with Android version 5.1 (lollipop). Using system's stock file manager I compressed many important files and made password protected zips & password protected nested ...
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Unzipping potentially corrupt zip file
I have the following file: onedrive.zip
When I try to unzip it:
unzip onedrive.zip
Archive: onedrive.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it ...
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Unzip file with colon in the name on Windows [duplicate]
My university has a system to download any professor's lecture notes in bulk as zip files. After a recent update on the server-side, the zipped files (contents) have names like this:
WINSEM2022-...
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How to add file inside folder of a zip
How do I add a file/folder in a zip file that isn't in the root folder? For example in
test.zip\parent test folder\folder1
and I want to add test1.txt inside the \folder1 of the zip file?
I am using ...
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Recovering a zip decryption password I have used it once and then forgot it [duplicate]
So I have received a ZIP file that is password encrypted.
I have used BreeZip to unzip and view the files initially, which required a password, which I have lost. As I was using the free version of ...