Hi Clive
I take your word for it, I haven’t come across anyone zipping up to that extent.
Kind regards,
Jackie Brown
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Hi Jackie,
The only time I’ve seen the Windows Utility fail to extract everything is when
someone has sent me a zipped folder with unnecessarily overgrown folder trees,
so that the files are about four or five levels down, and the names of the
files within have been unnecessarily lengthy. Then it can’t extract everthing
when the path name is too long. But that’s no fault of the utility. It’s simple
pilot error. I have told the people who’ve sent zipped files with over-complex
pathnames what to do to rectify the problem. Other than that, of which the
utility is innocent, I have never had any trouble with it.
I have never understood, however, when people need to bag their files up as
.zip files, when winrra, and so on.
Best,
Clive
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Hi Alison
I’ve always used the Windows utility, I have never installed WinZip or anything
else because it’s always worked well for me. I thought some people have said
you need additional utilities because the built-in Windows tool doesn’t extract
everything. This has not been my experience, but each to their own.
Kind regards,
Jackie Brown
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I had to smile, Jackie, when you explained how to unzip a folder. I have only
recently discovered this method. For years I have:
1. Highlighted the zipped file
2. Pressed the context key
3. Tabbed round to extract
4. Shift-tabbed back to browse
5. Shift-tabbed back to the folder where I wanted it to go
6. Tabbed forward past the edit field confirming the folder and checked to
say this is indeed where I wanted it saved
7. And lastly tabbed to extract.
This method works but it what you describe is so much simpler and quicker.
Alison
