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If I used windows, I would totally do this....

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

on windows I use peazip because I can right click context menu > extract to smart new folder - does 7zip do that? if so I'd switch back

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I dont know what a smart folder is.
But you can extract to ./[archive name]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Depending on what you mean with "smart", when I used Windows 7zip also offered to extract into a new folder through a context menu

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

In this context (IIRC) smart means "if this zip contains a single folder with contents, directly extract that folder, but if the zip contains files and/or folders, extract all that to a new folder named the same as the zip file".

Some people zip folders while some people zip the files in a folder. Smart extraction just handles both automatically.

[–] stufkes 1 points 8 months ago

7zip doesn't work well with win11. Read somewhere that the developer refuses to do something about it, but no idea. Went with nanazip, which is derived from 7zip

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Seems to. MB3 and you have Extract which does a folder name and places them in that, or Extract Here which puts all the files in your current directory