Winzip is vindictive

[longtooth]

Update on my experience with downloading Winzip.
Suffice it to say that it was necessary, for business
reasons that I use Winzip. It was not a choice and I much
prefer to use Windows own Compressed folders simply
because using it is a " no brainer " and Winzip takes
considerably more effort to learn how to jump through its
many and varied hoops.
I posted several days ago with my conserns about losing
compressed folders after downloading Winzip,and this did
occur. Winzip deleted all refrences to and use of
compressed folders. After my original post someone
suggested a way to get compressed folders to co-exist
with Winzip. This failed to produce any negligable
results. Although my computer reported the method used
was sucessful compressed folders cannot be located to
this date. Undaunted I deleted Winzip from my personal
side of the computer, but still no compressed folders.
The only effect being that all the folders in
my "favorites" menu turned a sickly shade of washed out
yellow and became ragged looking. Days passed and I
finally decided to try and learn to use Winzip, so loaded
it back onto my "personal" side. I still have'nt learned
to use winzip but have already benefited from the
experience. Immediately the folders in my "favorites"
menu returned to a bright yellow and lost the ragged look.
So what is the moral to this story ? Beats me, Other than
if it aint broke, dont fix it. Winzip is vindictive.

 

[Pat Garard]

G'Day Longtooth,

First - There is no particular connection between Winzip and Compressed
Folders.

Winzip is used to collect and compress files so that:
-You may have a smaller attachment for an e-mail
-You may send an '.exe' to somebody and ensure that Outlook lets it
through (Outlook will rip off files with certain extensions like .exe
and .pif).
-You can fit it on a floppy (or a set of floppies using spanning).
-....and other similar facilities.

The ability to compress folders on disk, is a built-in feature of Windows Xp
that allows you to trade off performance for disk space (you use up less
disk space, but opening files etc will be a tad slower). This compression is
entirely transparent - if you copy/move a file, any
decompression/recompression etc is handled automatically by Xp. If you open,
in (say) Word, a document that happens to be compressed then Word is
entirely unaware - Xp gives it the decompressed version, and recompresses it
on save. In particular, Winzip cannot see any Xp applied compression - any
compressed files sent to Winzip are decompressed by Xp, and then
recompressed by WinZip.

Second - Xp will offer this (automatic compression) service as the default
for handling ".zip" files (so you don't need pkzip, winzip etc) - and this
may be where the conflict is arising. I keep the two functions separate.

Sorry to be long-winded, but I hope I have cleared things up a bit!

 

[Pat Garard]

Forget what I said about moving/copying - my mind was multi-tasking and
suffered a FATAL Page Fault.
The rest is ok.

 

[longtooth]

-----Original Message-----
G'Day Longtooth,

First - There is no particular connection between Winzip and Compressed
Folders.

Winzip is used to collect and compress files so that:
-You may have a smaller attachment for an e-mail
-You may send an '.exe' to somebody and ensure that Outlook lets it
through (Outlook will rip off files with certain extensions like .exe
and .pif).
-You can fit it on a floppy (or a set of floppies using spanning).
-....and other similar facilities.

The ability to compress folders on disk, is a built-in feature of Windows Xp
that allows you to trade off performance for disk space (you use up less
disk space, but opening files etc will be a tad slower). This compression is
entirely transparent - if you copy/move a file, any
decompression/recompression etc is handled automatically by Xp. If you open,
in (say) Word, a document that happens to be compressed then Word is
entirely unaware - Xp gives it the decompressed version, and recompresses it
on save. In particular, Winzip cannot see any Xp applied compression - any
compressed files sent to Winzip are decompressed by Xp, and then
recompressed by WinZip.

Second - Xp will offer this (automatic compression) service as the default
for handling ".zip" files (so you don't need pkzip, winzip etc) - and this
may be where the conflict is arising. I keep the two functions separate.

Sorry to be long-winded, but I hope I have cleared things up a bit!
--
Hope this helps!

Pat Garard
Australia




.
Pat,thanks for your reply.And may I say G'Day to you and

it is great hearing from an Aussie. I printed your reply
to give me time to digest it completely. My problem was,
and is that Winzip will not co-exist on my computer with
XPs compressed folders and deleted it from my system
totally,as best as I can tell. All efforts at raising
compressed folders have failed, so I guess I'll learn to
use winzip.I could say a lot more of a personal nature
but since this is not a chat line ------My very best to
you and yours from Oklahoma,land of the Redman.