7-zip what a good program

[shrimply]

I dunno if this should be under software but just a big thanks to whoever on here suggested 7-zip.

 

I just had a friend on the phone who was having all sorts of problems accessing some uni work. After the initial problems of accessing them what was supposed to have downloaded as a .zip file had downloaded as a .zip.part file which I had no idea how to open and neither did windows. It was only after a while of me saying that all you need to do is right click and extract all she told me it wasn't a .zip file.

 

As a last attempt I got her to open 7-zip, previously installed by me, and navigate to the file and click extract all, she apparently got a few messages up but I just said click yes for all of them. And what do you know it actually worked.

 

SO thanks.

[Guest Wolfeymole]

http://extremetechsupport.com/forum/24731-post11.html

[Goku]

Hello Shrimply. The *.part extension is usually alloted by browsers, specifically Firefox, to active downloads. When a download is complete, the browser removes the *.part from the file name leaving you free to access the files. If your friend was having problems with the file, I suspect it was more because of a broken download than anything else. In that case, redownloading the file and extracting it should have solved the problem too.

 

Anyways, thanks for posting that about 7-Zip. I knew it was an excellent piece of software but I never knew that it had an 'archive reconstruction' feature to repair broken archives, like WinRAR. Cheers. :)

 

-- Goku

[rowal5555]

Totally agree.

 

7Zip is my default unzipper.

 

Cheers, Rob

[iwillbekingin2030]

thanks for suggesting it

 

thanks for posting this software suggestion. i have been using winrar trial but yesterday i installed 7-zip to try it out and now it's my default and i have removed the winrar trial. ty againl.:p