Timeline for Autoextract zip files on Windows like Mac OS
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| Feb 26, 2020 at 6:32 | comment | added | John Y |
Maybe it's just a Windows sensibility, but I agree with @DrMoishe that automatic extraction isn't the best idea. But if I'm reading your comment on their answer correctly, you seem to be at least OK with the idea of right-clicking on a ZIP file to explicitly choose extraction. Well, that is already built into the context menu (as Extract All...) without any additional programs.
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| Feb 25, 2020 at 22:15 | comment | added | Jay Wick | So the native experience in MacOS X when opening a ZIP file is a the contents are automatically extracted into its own folder, no UI is ever shown just a new folder is created. This is really useful in my case because my files need sibling files to work (as with source code for example). Windows abstracts the ZIP file like it's a folder, but it doesn't work 100% the same (file system won't recognise sibling files, drag and drop to applications won't work, file pickers might not go inside the actual zip file like Windows Explorer might etc) | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 17:53 | comment | added | John Y | I'm kind of confused. Windows has come with ZIP extraction built-in for many, many years now. You don't need a separate program for it. (Though 7-Zip is worth having anyway.) | |
| Feb 23, 2020 at 23:50 | history | edited | Amazon Dies In Darkness♦ |
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| Feb 23, 2020 at 4:42 | answer | added | DrMoishe Pippik | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 22, 2020 at 22:09 | history | asked | Jay Wick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |