Editing and saving Word documents in zip files

[Guest]

Using windows XP, I found that the built-in zip manager neatly enables me to treat my zip files like sub-directories. But when I open a Word document in such a zip file and edit it, I expect to save it in the same zip file when I exit. Instead, Word puts the edited document in some new Temporary directory. Isn't there a way to just save the document in the zip file? At the moment, I am "saving as" in another directory, then laboriously copying the file back into the zip file as a separate operation. This defeats the apparent purpose of having a zip file open like a sub-directory.

Also, why do the files in the zip directory apparently become "read only"? Is this the cause of the above? Help

ChriZ

 

[Jezebel]

When you open a zip file, the files are *always* expanded to disk --
specifically, into the temp folder. The zip file isn't some kind of magic
folder floating in air: you're dealing with real files that have to exist in
the real world of your computer. On top of that, when you open any Word
document, Word has to create a temporary working copy of that file, and that
too has to be written to disk.

Thus the edited document in the temp directory *is* the file within the Zip
file, unless you've got some problem with folder permissions, or the zip
file itself is read-only.

Using windows XP, I found that the built-in zip manager neatly enables me

to treat my zip files like sub-directories. But when I open a Word document
in such a zip file and edit it, I expect to save it in the same zip file
when I exit. Instead, Word puts the edited document in some new Temporary
directory. Isn't there a way to just save the document in the zip file? At
the moment, I am "saving as" in another directory, then laboriously copying
the file back into the zip file as a separate operation. This defeats the
apparent purpose of having a zip file open like a sub-directory.

Also, why do the files in the zip directory apparently become "read only"?

Is this the cause of the above? Help.