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When I used WinRAR to extract tgz files, I can right click the file and choose "extract here" and it puts it in a folder by the same name as the archive file's name.  For example, H123.tgz wou...
OK, I want to compress certain files for about 80 users and rather than writing individual batch files for each person I just went and hid the folders of non-important files. Now the proble...
I have about 3000 .gz files in a folder which I need to unzip to a different folder. I used command line to do it and I have Winzip, WinRar installed but neither worked. The command is like: ...
Hello, I own a Sony block camera FCB-H10, it is not a consumer or prosumer camera, rather it is a machine vision camera the supplies me with pure HD 1920x1080 component video.  I am using thi...
Is it ok to delete files in Compress old files in Disk cleanup tool? Yes or no and why?
Hi experts! I have a 12G partition for my C: drive for my OS on a Server 2003 file server.  Its getting full, and I'm trying to make space.  I already added virtual memory space on another dr...
I create a docx file. Type "This is a test" save as test.docx rename to test.zip extract to folder called test compress folder as test.zip rename to test.docx When I open the file I ...
Where is a genuine free WINRAR download? Thanks.
I have some .txt files that I want to zip using the Send To / Compressed (Zipped) Folder in Windows XP Pro.  When I try to zip a file that is larger that 2GB, I get the following error message...
Hi, I'm using Rar.exe in a batch, like this: "C:\Program Files\WinRAR\rar.exe" a -r "%1\File.zip" "%2\Dir" -x"%2\Dir\bin\Release\1.exe" -x"%2\Dir\bin\Release\2.config"  -ep -ap"NewDir" ...
I'm using Vista Ultimate 64-bit and need a program to open an RAR file that I downloaded.  I've found a number of sites online offering such programs but am nervoucs about downloading from sit...
I've read the RAR compression accomplishes the highest compression compared to other compression formats like zip or 7z. Does RAR files have a maximum file size restriction like zip? I have a ...
i've downloaded video files (avi) from emule,but i can't see them. i've tried to use : nero showtime quicktime player realplayer winamp vlc media player windows media player but the...
I am trying to rar all contents in a folder and sub folders and use the name of the files in those sub folders for the name of the rar file. I want to put the extracted files in another folder.
This is a strange issue but maybe somebody has some advice.  My friend constantly has issues on his Windows XP SP2 machine with extracting large downloaded demos / betas etc of games.  They al...
I compressed some of my important files by winrar from a long time ago and i protected it by a password does any one  know a way to retrive my password and files
Is there a way to compress 850Mb of MP3 songs to fit a CD (700Mb) using Nero 7 premium?
My workstation is using NTFS, Outlook 2003 with Exchange 2003 server. My outlook.ost file is 1.7GB. As my Outlook runs into problem, I tried to copy the outlook.ost file to another location ...
I  have a zip file on my local Windows machine that I want to convert to a tar or a tar.gz file.    I need to do this so that I can untar it on a Linux box.   Not sure if I need to make it a t...
I have a hardrive that is an ntfs format and it has gotten a microsoft blue screen and i used clonezilla to save disk and it copied it to another hardrive and it saved about 10 diffrent file t...
I have Winzip 11.1 installed on my laptop. Yesterday I purchased Winzip 11.2 online. I tried to remove 11.1 and got the message that winzip.chm was missing so could not remove. tried to instal...
I need to develop an application that, among other functions, is able to programmatically compress a large number of document files for storage and retrieval in a database.  As a first step, I...
Hi Folks:     I have a zip file which has a corupted file name - ie. the zip file contains only one file, but the file name is a NULL - winzip, winrar etc. can recognize that there is a fil...
I hope there's a program I can use to squeeze the file sizes while only sufferering a small loss of quality. I do not realy want to make the images physically smaller, just the file size. C...
I am trying to find a way to create a password-protected encrypted ZIP archive from an automated script.  The script (preferably Perl, but any command line solution I can call FROM a perl scri...