ZipCentral

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

So I found this zip utility on the innerweb:

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,6531-order,1/description.html

It's freeware that shouldn't stop working on me. It's got a nice user-friendly interface, with virtually no learning curve if you're used to WinZip.

I zipped up four .jpgs of General Dempsey/Haj as a test. Would someone be so kind as to download and let me know if they unzip okay on your machine? If it works, I'm golden for zipping. Thanks

[Russia4Life]

Worked for me.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Great!

Russ, I owe you a couple of favors now. Got any graphics requests?

[vyeh]

I checked it on my machine, more for my benefit since I have a Mac. It worked.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Good. I considered deleting the thread once it'd been tested, but a free zip utility is a resource for the community.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

I suppose it's my duty to add that ZipCentral has a few shortcomings I find non-trivial.

It doesn't default the the last place I went when I'm adding to zips. That's 10 seconds out of my life clicking C:, Program files, Firaxis Game, ect., every time.

It doesn't handle .rar files so I have to use WinAce for those, which has come up repeatedly in the last week. Well, this one is pretty trivial, as it comes up automatically with right-clicking.

When you've opened a zip in ZC without extracting and right-click on the contents, Open with- isn't one of the options. Since I deal in ,pcxs a lot, and the default Windows picture viewer won't display them, I need PhotoShop, which won't look inside zips on its own; that's a real pain.

Just throwin' that out there.

[Lord Avalon]

7-Zip is also free. Only unpacks RAR, though. Not sure about default location.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Thanks, but I found 7-Zip first- that I didn't start a thread to share should tell the story succinctly.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

So, I discovered over the weekend that there's a little bug- but that's good news.

When you're adding to a zip, it gives you a blank screen when you hit browse. Hit ok, and hit browse again, and the second time it's defaulted to the last place you added from.

So ZipCentral is working out better than I feared when I posted on that...

[Alinestra Covelia]

How do these stack up against WinRAR?

I'm using WinRAR and it seems to be okay, but if there are better free programs out there I'm interested.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Unimpressed with 7Zip. Unfamilar with WinRAR.