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Re: Third adding zip file support
Posted: 19 Sep 2007 12:08
by admin
bergfex wrote:jacky wrote:
Does that mean IZArc does things differently, is it coming from XY, or from IZArc, I have no idea.
Suddently I feel not so helpful, but it's too late now so I'm posting anyways
I just tried it with Squeez (speedproject.de). It also doesn't work.
Okay okay, I think I have to look at it again...
Which of the non-working zippers is freeware? I want to start with the cheap ones, and hope to get some insight that's good for
all of them!
Posted: 19 Sep 2007 13:55
by bergfex
IZArc is freeware.
I only have Squeez installed here but I made a list of some of the most famous archive tools. Maybe I have more time later to test if XYplorer works with them.
> WORKS:
WinZip
WinRar
7zip
> TO TEST:
www.filzip.de (Freeware)
www.tugzip.de (Freeware)
http://peazip.sourceforge.net (Freeware)
www.zipgenius.it (Freeware)
www.ultimatezip.com
www.powerarchiver.com
www.winace.com
> DOESN'T WORK:
www.izarc.org (Freeware)
Squeez
www.speedproject.de
Re: Third adding zip file support
Posted: 19 Sep 2007 20:41
by mwb1100
admin wrote:Okay okay, I think I have to look at it again...
Which of the non-working zippers is freeware? I want to start with the cheap ones, and hope to get some insight that's good for
all of them!
You can re-enable the native XP zip file handling using:
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regsvr32 C:\WINDOWS\system32\zipfldr.dll
Posted: 20 Sep 2007 07:53
by admin
Posted: 20 Sep 2007 11:29
by bergfex
ZIP support
Posted: 24 Sep 2007 20:19
by jkh
mikes16 wrote:I second the wish for Zip support.
It is SO convienient in DoPus to navigate through zip files like they are folders. I work with a lot of zip files and it is nice to not have to UNZIP them to get to their content - I can just double click, the zip opens like it is a folder, then there are all the files that are zipped. Once I am done looking at them or opening them, I can back out and the zip is there. I store a lot of files as ZIPs because it takes up less space.
With ANY other zip manager I would need to unzip, view the files, then delete the unzipped directory.
More steps. Less productivity. It is all about least amount of mouse movement and least number of clicks.
Like other (former) PowerDesk users, and users of other all-in-one tools, I really miss built in zip support. UI-wise: right-click on a zip file, provide menu item to open a new tab with the contents listed and accessible for d&d and preview. Not too fancy.... but extremely useful.
Re: Third adding zip file support
Posted: 26 Sep 2007 18:27
by scoleman2272
bergfex wrote:jacky wrote:
Does that mean IZArc does things differently, is it coming from XY, or from IZArc, I have no idea.
Suddently I feel not so helpful, but it's too late now so I'm posting anyways
I just tried it with Squeez (speedproject.de). It also doesn't work.
This sure looks like a bug to me. When you try the drag/drop to XYExplorer you get the error message (Error 445) and it asks it you want to copy to clipboard. When you confirm with OK it does NOT copy to clipboard
Re: Third adding zip file support
Posted: 05 Oct 2007 09:58
by admin
Hey, I managed to handle drops from Explorer-handled archives (zipfolder...).
I did not test any of the other zippers. Some of them should work now as well...
Posted: 05 Oct 2007 14:35
by PeterH
Sorry to say, but IZArc still doesn't work...
Posted: 05 Oct 2007 15:18
by bergfex
The same here with Squeez
Posted: 05 Oct 2007 17:18
by admin
bergfex wrote:The same here with Squeez
Hmm, I worked the whole morning on this... and was very happy with the results.
Nobody got some good news to report?
Posted: 05 Oct 2007 18:34
by admin
Okay, I started with IZArc2Go... and immediately made an interesting discovery: this beast does the extracting
and the copying! Whereas WinZip does only the extracting and leaves the copying to me. Okay... so I made it IZArc2Go-compatible. I wonder what comes next. Every archiver his own way?...
Posted: 05 Oct 2007 23:56
by PeterH
Beg your pardon - what's IZArc2Go? I have just IZArc (IZArc.exe V3.81) and it still doesn't work for me
But: it seems better than before! In prev version, on draging from IZArc to XY I immediately saw sign like "no action here" - so no chance to drop. Now, with 6.30.0054, everything *looks* fine - but then nothing is dropped! Tried it with some different .zip-files, and different drop-locations. Always the same: it looks good, but nothing is extracted...
Posted: 06 Oct 2007 09:15
by bergfex
PeterH wrote:Beg your pardon - what's IZArc2Go?
It's the portable version of IZArc.
http://www.izarc.org/izarc2go.html
Posted: 06 Oct 2007 09:49
by admin
PeterH wrote:Always the same: it looks good, but nothing is extracted...
Next version will be better... as I expected IZArc behaved differently from IZArc2Go.