XYplorer Beta Club

Perhaps this has been covered; I apologize if that's the case. For years I used PowerDesk Pro; however, that software has not been upgraded for Win-7 and so it has some rough edges in that OS. One thing that PowerDesk did that was very useful was generate ZIP archives and did it well. That would be an excellant addition to XYplorer.

I strongly urge the easy addition of ZIP archive generation to XYplorer.

--Bob Harris

Harris2508 wrote:Perhaps this has been covered; I apologize if that's the case.

Yes, it has been...many many times...and if you've seen my reply in your other thread, I can maybe point you to some ideas...(oh, and apology accepted! )

This may be a good start:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4580
And here's another possible:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3649

If you have Win XP+, select your files, right-click on them, Send To --> Compressed (zipped) folder. Job done

zer0 wrote:If you have Win XP+, select your files, right-click on them, Send To --> Compressed (zipped) folder. Job done

Please pardon my lack of a timely reply, I've been away from my PC for the last few days. I'm using, on this PC, Win-7 64bit Professional. But I'm intrigued by your suggestion. Are you doing this from within XYplorer? Does it actually make an archive, or are you using this method to assemble the files for later archiving my another utility?

I apologize for my denseness on this issue!

Harris2508 wrote:Are you doing this from within XYplorer? Does it actually make an archive, or are you using this method to assemble the files for later archiving my another utility?

I am doing it from within XYplorer. I use the shell context menu on a collection of items and the rest is as described above. It does make an archive. Said archive doesn't feature extras like password protection, encryption and variable levels of compression, but it's an archive

zer0 wrote:

Harris2508 wrote:Are you doing this from within XYplorer? Does it actually make an archive, or are you using this method to assemble the files for later archiving my another utility?

I am doing it from within XYplorer. I use the shell context menu on a collection of items and the rest is as described above. It does make an archive. Said archive doesn't feature extras like password protection, encryption and variable levels of compression, but it's an archive

Well, I must say that this little trick has escaped me all these years! I see that it's an intrinsic part of Windows that I've never actually tried before. Thank you very much for pointing this out. I would say that for 99% of the zip files I need to create this will work just fine.

I really appreciate you pointing this trick out. Very handy indeed!

--Bob

It's actually an interesting thing: the files are "sent to" a 0 byte item called "C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\SendTo\ZIP-komprimierten Ordner.ZFSendToTarget" (german locale). There should be ways to exploit this functionality in other ways --- maybe a CTB is possible. No time to try this though...

admin wrote:It's actually an interesting thing: the files are "sent to" a 0 byte item called "C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\SendTo\ZIP-komprimierten Ordner.ZFSendToTarget" (german locale). There should be ways to exploit this functionality in other ways --- maybe a CTB is possible. No time to try this though...

FYI
It seams to be the zipfldr.dll is involved, but no one could handle to use this info on command line.

They tried without success:

opening the compressed folder view (explorer):
rundll32.exe zipfldr.dll,RouteTheCall [Zipfile].zip

rundll32.exe zipfldr.dll,<entrypoint> <arguments>
rundll32.exe zipfldr.dll,RouteTheCall c:\zipthesefiles

Stefan wrote:

admin wrote:It's actually an interesting thing: the files are "sent to" a 0 byte item called "C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\SendTo\ZIP-komprimierten Ordner.ZFSendToTarget" (german locale). There should be ways to exploit this functionality in other ways --- maybe a CTB is possible. No time to try this though...

FYI
It seams to be the zipfldr.dll is involved, but no one could handle to use this info on command line.

They tried without success:

opening the compressed folder view (explorer):
rundll32.exe zipfldr.dll,RouteTheCall [Zipfile].zip

rundll32.exe zipfldr.dll,<entrypoint> <arguments>
rundll32.exe zipfldr.dll,RouteTheCall c:\zipthesefiles

Thanks, but who is "they"?

Oh , with "they" i meant the people which i found by googling who had discussed and tried this already.

Nothing from interests found, I read only about some asking "how" and they
getting mostly answers as "use xyz-ZIP", and some tell they had tried with said dll without success.