If you need to compress only files with some extension, you can use -r switch:Ĭompresses all *.txt files from folder c:\dir\ and all it's subfolders. Searches and compresses "Program Files" in all subfolders of C:\ (for example, in "C:\WINDOWS"). Why doesn't -r switch work as expected?ħ-Zip can compress subfolders even without -r switch.Įxample 1: 7z.exe a c:\a.7z "C:\Program Files"Ĭompresses "C:\Program Files" completely, including all subfolders.Įxample 2: 7z.exe a -r c:\a.7z "C:\Program Files" To process all files you must use the * wildcard instead or omit the wildcard altogether. 7-Zip doesn't use the operating system's wildcard mask parser,Īnd consequently treats *.* as any file that has an extension. Why doesn't the command line version add files without extensions to an archive? To avoid temp file usage, you can use Extract command of 7-Zip orĭrag-and-drop from 7-Zip to 7-Zip. Then Windows Explorer copies these files to drop target folder. So 7-Zip extracts files from archive to temp folder and thenħ-Zip notifies Windows Explorer about paths of these temp files. Only Windows Explorer knows exact drop target.Īnd Windows Explorer needs files (drag source) as decompressed files on disk. Why does drag-and-drop archive extraction from 7-Zip to Explorer use temp files?ħ-Zip doesn't know folder path of drop target. Why can't 7-Zip open some RAR archives?ħ-Zip 9.20 supports RAR 2/3/4 formats only and doesn't support RAR5 archives.īut latest versions of 7-Zip supports RAR5 archives. There are also some ZIP archives that were encoded with methods unsupported by 7-Zip,įor example, WAVPack (WinZip). Of that program that their software is not ZIP-compatible. Instead try to find the program that was used to create the archive and inform the developers If you have such archive, please don't call the 7-Zip developers about it. Other ZIP programs can open some archives with incorrect headers, since these programs In 99% of these cases it means that the archive contains incorrect headers. If you think that unusual file order is not problem for you,Īnd if better compression ratio with small dictionary is more important for you, Specify ' qs' in Parameters field (or use -mqs switch for command line version).You can increase compression ratio with the following methods: Note that sorting "by type" has some drawbacks.įor example, NTFS volumes use sorting order "by name", so if an archive usesĪnother sorting, then the speed of some operations for files with unusual orderĬan fall on HDD devices (HDDs have low speed for "seek" operations). If there are similar files in different folders, the sorting "by type" can provide If dictionary size is smaller than total size of files. You can get big difference in compression ratio for different sorting methods, (or -mqs switch for command line version).
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