this post was submitted on 29 Feb 2024
1592 points (98.2% liked)

Memes

45173 readers
2275 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

If I used windows, I would totally do this....

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 174 points 6 months ago (20 children)

Or use 7zip like any sane person

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (5 children)

on windows I use peazip because I can right click context menu > extract to smart new folder - does 7zip do that? if so I'd switch back

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Depending on what you mean with "smart", when I used Windows 7zip also offered to extract into a new folder through a context menu

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

In this context (IIRC) smart means "if this zip contains a single folder with contents, directly extract that folder, but if the zip contains files and/or folders, extract all that to a new folder named the same as the zip file".

Some people zip folders while some people zip the files in a folder. Smart extraction just handles both automatically.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (17 replies)