New WinZIP version - Annoying Issue

[Maelynn]

I recently started using WinZIP 19 on my new laptop. Before then, I had an older version on a pc (can't remember the version number, unfortunately) which always worked just fine. It unzipped all my addon folders neatly into the Addons folder, like it ought to.

What 19 does, however, is create a main folder in which to store those files/folders. *) So instead of simply dumping the content and be done with it, I now need to go into Explorer, grab everything from the newly created folder, move it up one layer so it's in the Addons folder itself, and then delete the now empty folder. It's so incredibly bothersome, especially because it feels utterly useless.

I've scoured the program's options as well as Google to see if it's merely a settings thing, but I can't find anything. So I'm turning to you guys. Please, help me fix this so I can just unzip updated addons the way I did on the pc! :<

*) example - unzipping the latest PhanxChat:

old WinZIP: Games\World of Warcraft\Addons\PhanxChat
new WinZIP: Games\World of Warcraft\Addons\PhanxChat-6.0.3.88\PhanxChat

[Talyrius]

I recommend ditching WinZip and using 7-Zip instead.

[Maelynn]

Hm, that one actually came with this laptop; so I just went and made 7Zip the default program for .zip files and tried it.

Except... it acts weird. Even when I select 'open file' instead of 'save', it saves it. I briefly see a small black screen (like a cmd screen) flash, but then it's gone and nothing happens. Nothing 7Zip-related is running in task manager, not even when I hit the downloads button on my browser and click the file from there. I just see another flash of black and that's it. Nada.

Just great. -_-

[semlar]

7zip has a command line interface which you appear to have made the default application, the exe with the gui is called 7zFM.exe or something.

[p3lim]

I honestly don't understand people that cling to paid software for archives like WinZIP or WinRAR when there are superior (and free) alternatives.

And especially, if you're not doing anything but extracting and making simple archives, you don't even need software for it in the later versions of Windows.

In any case, it sounds like you went with the "extract to <zipname>" option instead of "extract here".

[JDoubleU00]

Originally Posted by Talyrius I recommend ditching WinZip and using 7-Zip instead.

Second this!

[jeffy162]

I recommend TUGZip. It's FREE, and I've never had a problem with it.

(I know it's a link to an off-site page, but it's the program download page, part of the TUGZip web site,)

[Phanx]

Off-site website links aren't so much the problem; the problem is with direct links to off-site downloads (eg. the download file itself rather than the download page) or links to mystery downloads (eg. ZIP files on sites like rapidshare) where it's impossible to evaulate the trustworthiness of the source before downloading the file.

Anyway, I've been happy with 7Zip but I'm always interested in trying new things, so I'll probably check that program out later.

[jeffy162]

Oh, OK. My bad. I thought it might have been a bad thing to link an off site page. I'm just not with the program today (or many other days, either).