Questions tagged [winzip]
Compression and archive tool for Windows
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How to change context menu shortcuts for directories?
In Windows 11 specifically, I'm trying to figure out how to add WinZip context menu shortcuts for directories. These currently don't appear on a fresh WinZip install until the program is first ...
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Windows 11: Can't drag files out of WinZip folder
On Windows 10, I could create a new Compressed (zipped) Folder and drag files in and out of it (which results in a file copy). We recently upgraded to Windows 11. It only provides the option of a ...
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Create a Self Extracting Archive from Winzip Commandline
Is it possible to create a self extracting archive from console in Winzip? The task is trivial in 7zip and Winrar with the -sfx switch but having searched online and looked through all of the Winzip ...
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Winzip cmd line gives fatal error
I'm trying to add folders from a mapped network drive into a zip file using winzip command line but everytime I am receiving this error:
FATAL ERROR: assert failure (WzZipAdd.c@1346)
Please send the ...
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Winzip - how to include only top level folder/exclude all subcontents?
I have a question for winzip command line. I have a mapped network drive and I want to add the sdcard directory
My mapped network drive Z:\sdcard\ has alot of files and folders within it. But how can ...
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Trouble Unzipping Wikipedia Dump
My use case is I need to parse text from wikipedia articles. There is a dump available at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20221001/ that contains the files I want. Essentially the articles are ...
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How can I compress a large video file as much as possible e.g. 2 GB. to 200MB?
Recently I have received a very large 2 GB video file that was compressed to 200 MB inside a RAR file. How is this possible?
I have tried this instruction but it did not work.
The codec of the video ...
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WinZIP reports too many entries in "central directory"
WinZip reports:
WinZip Error: too many entries in central directory according to end of central directory info.
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Delete a file from a jar file without using zip command or extracting the jar
Is there a way to delete the file from a jar file without extracting it or without using the 'zip' command?
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Is it possible to download files and unzip in the cloud?
I have a doubt...
I have links to some files (.rar and .zip format) uploaded to Mediafire (I also have others stored in different services) for their respective download.
As additional information, ...
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How can I create a password protected .zip file in Windows 10? [duplicate]
Winzip claims that it can create a password protected zip on Windows 10, but the Winzip installer fails part way during the installation on Win10.
https://www.winzip.com/win/en/downwz.html
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Unable to Unregister Winzip Self Extractor License Key
I have a Windows 7 machine and I have a licensed version of Winzip Self Extractor 4.0 in "C:\Program Files (x86)\WinZip Self-Extractor". I could launch the self extractor and I can see the ...
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Can I compress a directory with a running executable?
I've given this a cursory google but most results reference creating executable zip files.
My question is basically:
I have a running .exe which:
Is, in this case, an installer
Other items in the ...
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Wrong password while extracting zip file [closed]
I had used C# code to create Password protected zip files,
But while extracting all the files inside zip gets except one large txt file, and for that particular file all different tools (default ...
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Is it possible for WinZip to not recognize passwords created with a different WinZip version?
I have a .zip file which came with a "supposedly" correct password to extract it. Yet neither 7-zip not my WinZip trial version recognize that password as correct. The same happens with password-...
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