• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

OT: zip trouble

W

Warrant

Videre Vincere Est
Today i'm trying to zip my new F-35A paint, but noticed i needed a new zip program. Downloaded the new WinZip 14.5 version, but now it wraps all stuff with a X.zipx extention.
I cannot find a good older version, and i cannot wrap it ip with a regular X.zip extention (winzip claims if you wrap up in zip 2.0 legacy format, all can un-wrap the file).
But, when uploading a file at simviation, they immediately gave me an error of illegal format!

How to get stuff wrapped up in the good old X.zip format without having to go to "dark" sites and download an older version of winzip?

Please help
 
What O/S are you using, Warrant?

XP, Vista and 7 all have the ability to put files in the legacy zip format directly from Windows Explorer - you simply select the file(s)/folder(s) you want to add to the zip, right click and select "Send to", then "compressed folder (zip). That will create a zip file with your selections inside which is perfectly acceptable to all the download sites that I know of.

I did discover a problem, though, that files zipped using XP sometimes refused to open and reported as corrupt in Vista64. Not sure why that was.

Another option you might like to look at is WinRAR, which can handle a large number of different formats and, although commercial software, it can be run without limits in a trial mode.

Hope that helps?

Ian P.
 
Thanks Ian, i run Vista 64. I did not know the "send to" trick. If AVSIM and/or Flightsim.com bounce my upload i will try this option.
 
WinRAR is not free, stiz. It's free to download a try, but is a commercial package.

I've never had much luck with 7-Zip, but others have, as documented above. :)

Ian P.
 
I've used the payware WinRAR, as some of my work requires the ability to unpack and pack .RAR files. It's a cheap one time price and works much better than 7-Zip or WinZip.

Caz
 
Thanks guy's. Great input!
I used Ian's option at first and re-uploaded (though no bounce's received regarding the zipX versions as of yet).
The other suggestions are well appreciated and i'm gonna test them.

Regards, Warrant
 
Glad I saved the .exe file for Winzip 9!! I started with Winzip 6.3 (I think) and got free upgrades to v9. Then they wanted money for v10 so I just never bothered.

Paul
 
Hi Folks

IanP said:
XP, Vista and 7 all have the ability to put files in the legacy zip format directly from Windows Explorer
<snip>
I did discover a problem, though, that files zipped using XP sometimes refused to open and reported as corrupt in Vista64. Not sure why that was.
Click to expand...
Ian -
I also experienced similar with a Win7 natively-generated zip.

WinZip refused to open it.

The Vista and Win7 outputs are apparently non-WinZip standard -
The 32-bit CRC stored in the local header for this file
is not the same as the 32-bit CRC stored in the central header.
Click to expand...


Solution was to open with XP's inbuilt Windows Explorer </snip>native-<snip>zip mechanism.



HTH
ATB
Paul</snip>
 
BASys said:
Solution was to open with XP's inbuilt Windows Explorer </SNIP>native-<SNIP>zip mechanism.
</SNIP>
Click to expand...

Paul,
how would you do that if you have an original WinZip product installed, or any other product which has an automatic file association for the .zip extension ?
thanks in advance for any info,
regards,
Ro
 
IanP said:
WinRAR is not free, stiz. It's free to download a try, but is a commercial package.

I've never had much luck with 7-Zip, but others have, as documented above. :)

Ian P.
Click to expand...

unlimited trial, you can still extract etc and all you get is a little message pop up after you open a file saying "do you want to buy" you can just click cancel and carry on :)
 
Hi Folks

rohan said:
how would you do that if you have an original WinZip product installed,
or any other product which has an automatic file association for the .zip extension ?
Click to expand...
Rohan -
In Windows Explorer, (file manager),

In the left hand pane, (folder view),
Click the zip's parent folder,
and the zip will be listed as a zipped folder in the left hand pane.



N.B.
Doesn't work on all folders, (not sure why).
If that's the case,
Move the zip to a different folder and try again.



HTH
ATB
Paul
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top