How to pack files into a zip archive. How to unzip a file in simple ways

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To quickly upload a site through the file manager of the WebGuard hosting control panel, you need to pack it into a zip archive. This can be done in different ways:

1. USING STANDARD MICROSOFT WINDOWS OS TOOLS

To pack data into an archive using standard tools OS Microsoft Windows

By default, the archive will have the same name as the file you clicked on, once created, the archive can be renamed.
Submit -> Compressed ZIP Folder.
In the same folder will appear zip archive(file with extension .zip) containing the selected files.

2. USING THE WINZIP UTILITY

To work with the WinZip utility, the utility must be installed on your computer. To compress data into an archive using the WinZip utility, follow these steps:

Select the files you want to archive.
Click on any of the selected files with the right mouse button.
In the context menu, select Add to Zip.
In the window Add in field Add to archive Specify the path and name of the archive to be created. By default, the archive is created in the same folder.
Click on the button Add at the top right of the window.
Zip archive saved to the specified path. Close the window winzip.

3. USING THE WINRAR UTILITY

To work with the utility WinRAR, it must be installed on the computer. To pack data into an archive using the utility WinRAR, do the following:

Select the files you want to archive.
Click on any of the selected files with the right mouse button.
In the context menu, select Add to archive.
In the window Archive name and parameters Specify the path and name of the archive to be created. By default, the archive will be created in the same folder as the archived files and will have the name of this folder.
In the block archive format specify the format of the created archive:
- ZIP(preferred for professionals Kaspersky Labs format).
- RAR.
Click on the button OK at the bottom of the window.
The archive is saved to the specified path.

Good instructions for unpacking archives in zip and rar. How to properly zip files or extract data. Available about archiving.

What is archiving

Data archiving is the compression of files using special algorithms. An archive is a container containing packed files.

Why you need to compress files:

for savings. Archiving allows you to compress digital data tens and hundreds of times without loss of quality. By the way, archiving does not always involve compression.
for convenience. If you are transferring files over the Internet, it is inconvenient to download the entire folder, with all its contents. Imagine how you will transfer hundreds of attached files.
for long-term storage of files. Backups are often stored in zip / rar archives: not only because it is more economical, but because of the convenience of the structure: 1 file - 1 backup.

7zip is a good zip and rar unpacker

Let's say you have an archive and you need to unzip it. You will need an archiving program. Depending on the format in which the archive is stored, different tools can be used. We will touch on the popular zip and rar formats.

To unpack the files, we need the 7zip archiver. It is free and available for all platforms. 7zip works very fast. If you have a 64-bit OS and processor architecture, install the appropriate version - you will get a performance boost. If the files are large, every percentage is important.

Unpacking an archive can be performed not only inside the archiver, but also from the context menu.

How to unzip the archive. Very easy way

Unpacking rar or zip is very easy. Make sure 7zip is already installed and 7zip appears in the context menu. If you don't find it, restart your computer and check again.

How to extract files from an archive

The easiest way to unpack files into zip is through the Explorer context menu. I am using Total Commander.

Right click on the archive. A context menu will appear.
Choose from the menu 7zip - Unzip to...
After unpacking the files, a folder with the name of the archive will be created.

This way you can unpack a zip archive or any other format supported by 7zip.

How to archive files

Packing files is the reverse process of unpacking. It won't give you any trouble either.

Note. Since 7zip doesn't support rar packaging, we recommend sticking with zip or 7zip. By the way, 7zip outperforms rar in some tests by up to 5-10% compression efficiency. However, before you zip the file, make sure you can decompress it.

To pack files

From the context menu select 7zip - Add to archive...
Specify the archive format, compression level and other parameters. Click OK
An archive of the same name will be created in the current folder.

What other tools will be useful when packing / unpacking files

File manager . If you need to unpack the zip, it is not necessary to install a separate application. Take advantage of the built-in tools of the Total Commander file manager. It, for example, supports both RAR (only unpacking) and ZIP.
The WinRAR desktop archiver - initially only it, as the creator of the compression algorithm - was used to work with RAR. Times are changing, dozens of new applications have hit the market, but WinRAR remains a solid program that handles its native format best.
Zip archiver for phone. An important thing if you downloaded important files to your phone. The archiver for Android does not take up much space, but it will help out at the right time. Download!

Often people ask me: - "How to send a file by e-mail?" or vice versa, I ask someone to send me this or that file, and the person I ask has no idea how to do it ...
Therefore, I decided to write this guide.
First, let's prepare a file that we will send by mail.
To do this, the file can be sent unpacked, i. as it is, just attach the file to the letter, as an attachment, or packed into an archive...
If our file is small, then it can be sent without "Archiving", i.e. without compression...

If the file is large, then it is better to pack it in "Archive", thanks to this, the file can become much smaller, which will speed up the transfer at times.
Also, it must be said that today, some mail services do not allow sending executable files and many program library files. In the case of Windows, the executable file is .EXE - i.e. program file, and .DLL - library file (libraries can be not only dll files, but I will not list all of them). This approach of mail services is understandable, this is due to the fact that when transferring such files, the latter can simply turn out to be viruses, trojans and various similar muck ... Therefore, mail servers, in order to avoid problems, during the transmission of a letter, simply cut off attached files that they consider suspicious. This also applies to script files and files containing command sets, such as .BAT and .CMD...
Therefore, such files should be packed into an archive, and not just packed, but packed and password protected!
And one more thing, a few words about packing and archiving files... Image files, such as .JPG, .PNG, are almost not compressed during archiving, they can be packed into an archive only if you want to send a lot of files in a letter, and adding all of them one by one is very "difficult"... Text files, on the contrary, are compressed very strongly when packed into an archive, it happens that after compression, the archive has about 30% of the original file size. In this case, it is better to pack the files, of course. the size will be significantly reduced.
So, we figured out what to pack files into an archive, i.e. archive should be:
- If we want to transfer many files, after packing, we will need to add only one file, not 20 or 30 for example...
- If we want to transfer text files, because when packing, the size is significantly reduced, and of course, if we have a lot of these files, then it is much easier to add one file to the letter...
- If we want to transfer a program file, etc. - the file(s) must be archived so that the mail server does not cut them ...
Also, we know that pictures like .JPG, .PNG should be archived only if we want to transfer several files, because. these files don't lose much of their size when packed...
Now let's talk about everything in order ...
How to zip files:

For example, I have prepared several text files that have a total size of 3.73 megabytes.
To pack files into an archive, we must have an archiver installed. Today, the most common archiver is winrar http://www.rarlab.com/) one minus of this program is that it is paid.
And the program 7zip(official website of the program: http://www.7-zip.org/) this archiver is free, but less common.
Also, today, almost all operating systems support .ZIP archive files - this means that if you send a ZIP archive to a person, he will simply be able to open it.
Now let's add the files to the archive. To do this, select the desired group of files:

We click on them with the second (right) mouse button and select the item "Add to archive" (if you have some other archiver installed, the name of the menu item may differ).

We will open the window Adding files to the archive:

In which we need to adjust some parameters:
1 - Set the file name (to transfer files over the Internet, it is better to set the names in Latin letters so that there are no problems with encodings, etc.)
2 - Select the type of archive (we already talked about this)
3 - Set the compression level (the stronger the compression, the smaller our archive file will be)
4 - Press the button OK to create an archive.
Here is the dialog of the archiver program 7zip:

As you can see in the figure, almost everything is the same, well, yes, it is called a little differently, but in principle, it’s elementary to figure it out ...
After packaging, we have an archive file that is only 31.6 kilobytes in size, out of the former 3.73 megabytes!

Now, how to set a password for the archive:
winrar- To create a password-protected archive, in the archive creation window, go to the tab "Additionally" and press the button "Set password".

We will open the password setting dialog:

In which both fields must be filled in, i.e. password field and password confirmation field and press the button OK.
7zip- To create a password-protected archive, in the archive creation window, fill in two fields, of course the password and password confirmation:

After that, we carry out all the related settings, as described above.
Well, actually, that's all, we figured out the packaging, now let's proceed directly to sending the file by mail ...
Adding a file to a letter.
Now, we need to deal with some things... In what way, do we use mail - through some mail program or through web interface, i.e. going through the browser to the site of the mail server, enter your data there, etc. (browser is the program that you use to browse the Internet)
If you are using Web Interface then log into your email account...
Create a new letter. (for example, I will show how this is done on servers google, mail.ru And yandex)
And after you write the text of the letter, if of course you need it, click:

Link "Attach file"- in google

button "Attach file"- in mail.ru

button "Attach file"- in yandex

After that, you will see a file selection dialog:

In which you need: - specify the path to the file, i.e. Navigate to the folder where you have the files to send, or where you created the archive. Select the desired file and click on the button Open.
After that, the file will be uploaded to the mail server and added to the letter:

If you need to add any more files, then click again on the button or link "Attach a file", well, in fact, we do everything that was described above ...

Actually, that's all, after creating the letter and adding the attached file, click on the send button and send the letter...
Now let's look at how to do all this through email programs. For example, I will talk about the two most common mail programs, these are The Bat! And Microsoft Outlook.
First about Microsoft Outlook.
As in the case of the Web Interface, we create a new letter, enter the addressee, subject, text of the letter...

Attach file

(in older versions this button is in a different place)

In the same way, you can add more files if needed...
Now about "The Bat!"
As in all previous cases, we create a new letter, enter the addressee, subject, text of the letter ...
To add a file, press the button Attach file

After that, we will have an attachment file:

In the same way, you can add more files if needed...
That's all, to send a letter, press the send button ...
By following this guide, you will be able to send files through most Mail Servers using their Web Interface and Most Mail Programs... almost everywhere, these functions are very similar, almost always, the same name and located in the expected places.
P.S.
In many email programs, at the time of creating a letter, you can add attachments simply by dragging and dropping files into the editing window of a new letter (as from folder to folder).

We click on them with the second (right) mouse button and select the item "Add to archive" (if you have some other archiver installed, the name of the menu item may differ).

We will open the window Adding files to the archive:

We will open the password setting dialog:

button "Attach file"- in mail.ru

button "Attach file"- in yandex

After that, you will see a file selection dialog:

If you need to add any more files, then click again on the button or link "Attach a file", well, in fact, we do everything that was described above ...

Attach file

(in older versions this button is in a different place)

After that, we will have an attachment file:

An archive is just one file that has been stuffed with other files to reduce its overall size. If you still sigh when you get the next file in a ZIP, RAR, 7-Zip or any other archive, then this article is for you.

Let's take a look at a few options how to unzip archive:

How to unpack a ZIP archive using Windows 7
How to extract data from a RAR file using 7-Zip
How to unpack a damaged or multi-volume archive

At the end of the article, you can watch a short video on the topic.

The easiest way to unpack a ZIP archive

ZIP archives are regular files with a ".zip" extension. In fact, you don’t need any programs to simply unzip files from ZIP, everything is already built into Windows 7 Explorer. To unpack files, just right-click on the file and select “Extract All…” from the menu

In this case, a dialog box will appear where you will need to specify the path to unpack the files, or leave it by default (the current folder). As you can see, in the example I have a "Checklist.zip" file with an archived Word document. You can often find a PDF file in the archives.

If you leave the "Show extracted files" checkbox checked, then at the end of the unzipping procedure, another Explorer window will open with a new folder open.

You can not unzip the files at all, but go to the archive file as in a regular folder and open the desired file from there.

Unfortunately, Explorer cannot work with RAR files. For them, you need to install one of the programs that will be discussed.

Using the program is almost as easy as unpacking a ZIP using File Explorer. To do this, just right-click on the file and select one of the items from the "7-Zip" submenu:

"Unpack" - to open the unpack dialog
"Unpack here" - to simply extract the files to the current directory
“Unpack to “Folder Name”” - unzip files to a folder with the name of the archive (recommended)

The simplest are the second and third options, because. require no further action. If you select the first option, the following dialog will appear:

Here we can specify our path for unpacking. If you select the "No paths" option, then all files from the archive will be one heap, without subfolders. The "Overwrite" parameter is responsible for the mode of overwriting existing files. By default, the program will ask about each such file.

You can extract files not only from the right-click menu. If you double-click on the file, it will open in the 7-Zip program window. To unzip files, simply select them and click the "Extract" button

Alternative free way - Hamster Lite Archiver

I also want to introduce one newfangled Hamster Lite Archiver program. It is even simpler, free and has a modern interface. After installing it, new menu items also appear in the menu.

To unpack a rar or zip archive, right-click on it and select one of the options:

Extract files… - opens a dialog box
Extract Here - extracts files to the current folder
Extract to "Folder name" - unzip to a folder

Despite the fact that the context menu items are in English, the program itself is in Russian. Apparently, they have not yet reached the translation of these points, but at the time of reading this article, the situation may have already improved.

The dialog looks like this:

To unzip all files, simply click the "Unzip" button and select the folder where to put them.

How to unzip a file using WinRAR

The WinRAR program is widely used to work with RAR archives. The program can be downloaded from the official website of the developer. Look immediately in the list for the Russian version of the program (Russian). Installing the program is very easy, just click "Next" all the time. The program is paid with a trial period of 40 days. After the end of the trial period, the program continues to work, but it starts to bother with a window with a reminder of the license every time you start it.

To unpack RAR, or any other archive, just right-click on the file and select one of the options:

Extract Files… - Opens the extract dialog
Extract to current folder - the content will appear in the current folder
Extract to "folder name" - extract the contents to a new folder with the name of the archive (recommended)

The simplest options are the second and third. If you choose the first option, a dialog will appear in which you can specify a specific path where your files will fit and a few more parameters:

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Update mode:

Extract with replacement of files - this is if the folder already has the same files as in the archive, they will be replaced with new ones
Extract with update files - the same, but only older files will be replaced
Update only existing files - only the update will occur, the rest of the files will not be extracted.

The "Overwrite Mode" items are responsible for the behavior of the program when replacing existing files.

You can also unpack a damaged archive using this dialog. By default, if a file is in error, it will not be unpacked. If you check the box "Leave damaged files on the disk", then the damaged file will be unpacked. If it is a video or music, then it can be opened. But, of course, the completeness of the resulting file will depend on the degree of damage to the archive.

You can also unpack files from the WinRAR program window. To do this, just select the desired files and click on any of the buttons: "Extract ..." or "Wizard".

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Also, the WinRar program will help you to organize the backup of your information.

Please note that after installing any of the listed programs, the standard menu item "Extract ..." of Windows 7 Explorer for zip archives may disappear.

How to unpack a multi-volume archive

Multi-volume archives are created to split one huge archive into several smaller ones. In this case, there will be numbers at the end of the file names, for example .z01, .z02, .z03 or part1, part2, part 3 or 001, 002, 003, etc. To unpack such a multi-volume archive, ALL parts will be needed, otherwise nothing good will come of it. The process of unpacking a multi-volume archive is no different from unzipping regular files.

You just need to unzip the first file in the list in the usual way, and the rest will be pulled up automatically.

If, in addition to the numbered parts, there is also a “regular” archive, then this particular file must be unpacked.

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Please note that multi-volume ZIP archives created by WinRAR can only be unpacked by the same program!

Other programs give an error and at least you crack! Conversely, WinRAR does not understand multi-volume files created by other programs.
After unpacking, the unnecessary file with the archive can be deleted.

Conclusions:

I believe that this article gave an exhaustive answer to the question of how to unpack a zip, rar, 7z or any other archive. This can be done with Windows Explorer (ZIP only) or with the free programs 7-Zip and Hamster Lite Archiver or with the paid program WinRAR. Choose a convenient way for yourself and use it to your health!

Imagine how grateful your friends will be if you share this information with them on social networks! By the way, with the help of these programs you can also create your own archives, but read about it in the following articles.

How to pack files into a zip archive. How to unzip a file in simple ways

1. USING STANDARD MICROSOFT WINDOWS OS TOOLS

2. USING THE WINZIP UTILITY

3. USING THE WINRAR UTILITY

What is archiving

7zip is a good zip and rar unpacker

How to unzip the archive. Very easy way

How to extract files from an archive

How to archive files

What other tools will be useful when packing / unpacking files

The easiest way to unpack a ZIP archive

Alternative free way - Hamster Lite Archiver

How to unzip a file using WinRAR

How to unpack a multi-volume archive

Conclusions:

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