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You must run 7-Zip File Manager in administrator mode. Right-click the icon of 7-Zip File Manager, and then click Run as administrator.Then you can change file associations and some other options.

You can get big difference in compression ratio for different sorting methods,if dictionary size is smaller than total size of files.If there are similar files in different folders, the sorting "by type" can provide better compression ratio in some cases.

Note that sorting "by type" has some drawbacks.For example, NTFS volumes use sorting order "by name", so if an archive uses another sorting, then the speed of some operations for files with unusual order can fall on HDD devices (HDDs have low speed for "seek" operations).

If you have such archive, please don't call the 7-Zip developers about it.Instead try to find the program that was used to create the archive and inform the developers of that program that their software is not ZIP-compatible.

7-Zip doesn't know folder path of drop target.Only Windows Explorer knows exact drop target.And Windows Explorer needs files (drag source) as decompressed files on disk.So 7-Zip extracts files from archive to temp folder and then 7-Zip notifies Windows Explorer about paths of these temp files.Then Windows Explorer copies these files to drop target folder.

You're probably using a *.* wildcard. 7-Zip doesn't use the operating system's wildcard mask parser, and consequently treats *.* as any file that has an extension. To process all files you must use the * wildcard instead or omit the wildcard altogether.

7-Zip stores only relative paths of files (without drive letter prefix).You can change current folder to folder that is common for all files that you want to compress and then you can use relative paths:

32-bit Windows allocates only 2 GB of virtual space per one application. Also that block of 2 GB can be fragmented (for example, by some DLL file), so 7-Zip can't allocate one big contiguous block of virtual space.There are no such limitations in 64-bit Windows. So you can use any dictionary in Windows x64, if you have required amount of physical RAM.

There are some possible cases when archive is corrupted:

  • You can open archive and you can see the list of files, but when you press Extract or Test command, there are some errors: Data Error or CRC Error.
  • When you open archive, you get message "Can not open file 'a.7z' as archive"
It's possible to recover some data. Read about recovering procedure:Recover corrupted 7z archive

One way is to use the 7z.dll or 7za.dll (available from sf.net for download). The 7za.dll works via COM interfaces. It, however, doesn't use standard COM interfaces for creating objects. You can find a small example in "CPP\7zip\UI\Client7z" folder in the source code. A full example is 7-Zip itself, since 7-Zip works via this dll also. There are other applications that use 7za.dll such as WinRAR, PowerArchiver and others.

Since 7-Zip is licensed under the GNU LGPL you must follow the rules of that license. In brief, it means that any LGPL'ed code must remain licensed under the LGPL. For instance, you can change the code from 7-Zip or write a wrapper for some codefrom 7-Zip and compile it into a DLL; but, the source code of that DLL (including your modifications / additions / wrapper) must be licensed under the LGPL or GPL.Any other code in your application can be licensed as you wish.This scheme allows users and developers to change LGPL'ed code and recompilethat DLL. That is the idea of free software. Read more here: can also read about the LZMA SDK, which is available under a more liberal license.

Apparently 7zip just archives the link itself which is not what I intended. Is there a way to tell 7zip that I want it to archive the stuff that it links to, not the link itself? (That is if there is a symlink name foo which points to C:\stuff\foo, I want it to include the C:\stuff\foo directory in the archive in place of foo, not a 0-byte symlink.))

Failing that is there any reasonable around it, apart from adding the files and folders in question? Including the stuff through the symlink there's like 10 000 files, the large proportion of which are via symlinks so adding them all individually would take hours...

Note:Just to avoid confusion, note that the Linux build of p7zip (a port of 7zip) also has a binary 7z which does support archiving the file a symbolic link points to (switch -l). However, 7zip on Windows does not have this switch.

Since there seems to be some confusion on this, allow me to clarify. I'm assuming the OP is actually talking about Junctions as illustrated here _junction_point. Mklink does not make junctions. It makes TRUE symbolic links and I tried it myself and 7zip respects them perfectly. Also, you need to be administrator to create mklink symbolic links.

Old question, but I was struggling with it today so here's my 2c. The 7zip commandline tool "7z.exe" (I have v9.22 installed) can write to stdout and read from stdin so you can do without the intermediate tar file by using a pipe:

I just created a 7-zip archive here with an older tool, added password, and wrote out the 7z file to my Desktop. I right-clicked on this file, chose Open with, and using TheUnarchiver, was able to supply the password and extract the content correctly. On OS X El Capitan 10.11.6.

The error message implies it is using a (presumed) newer variant of .7z than the Mac tools you have tried support. I encountered a similar issue with a .rar file recently which was in the new version 5 RAR format.

Whilst there are at least two tools that I know now support v5 of RAR on a Mac I do not what format/version your file is in and whether any Mac tools support it. You can see information about the .7z format here -zip.org/7z.html

The same website lists various .7z tools that either they provide or recommend. The only Mac tool listed for .7z files is Keka which is what I have myself used in the past. The current version of Keka is 1.0.9 but there is a Keka 1.1.0beta which you could also try. See

Most compression tools and formats actually have multiple different compression schemes they can use although most of the time these choices are hidden and unnecessary. Zip has multiple variants, RAR has and so does .7z, if you look at the first webpage I linked to i.e. the .7z website you can see it lists at least seven different versions it can do. When you created a new test file and then successfully opened it you will have created it using a variant your tool understood, the problem here seems to be it has been created with a more esoteric or newer variant than the Mac tools you have tried understand.

Yes working with a windows pc and using 7zip v.9.20, so very old (actual we have 16.X-whatever), works without problems. So I'm not really sure if this zip archive is made with a very new crazy option. Because my old version of 7zip would also not be able to unzip it.

Yes, Joh I know. This was also the first tool tried, without success. The person which sends me the file is not available. But the company which he is working uses normally 7zip. Also you have the ability to create zip archives with 7zip, you only have to select it during creation procedure.

A common mistake by Windows users is putting the wrong file extension on files. If they used 7zip to create a ZIP file but used the .7z file extension this would confuse other more law abiding tools and equally possible would be the reverse of them having used 7zip to create a .7z file but using the .zip file extension.

I made a backup tool for MS SQL Express that -daily- backs up, 7zips and uploads the zipped files via FTP.It is a program made in VB.net, built as an .EXE with a .config file. One of the functions calls a file "7zip.exe".Anyway, on Win2003 (20 webservers) this works perfect. Small databases, big databases, slow servers, powerstations... The 'daily basis' is created by launching a scheduled task at night.

Now in Win2008 R1 I also created a 'basic task' and set it up.When I launch it, I see it working except the 7 zip does nothing. It has something to do with the scheduled task because when I run the .EXE normally (double clicking...) it 7zips, as it should be.

Windows Server 2008 made some changes to Scheduled Tasks, but I don't remember the specifics. I do remember having to update some tasks when I went from 2003 to 2008. You might need to assign a user to the task, even if it's a local job. If a regular user doesn't work, try a local admin user.

Thanks resolove my issue. becuase on windows server 2008 need full path while raring:On my scenario i schediled a batch script to zip one file everyday,but it didnt work as below my old script:"C:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe" a test.rar test.txt : this didnt work

Do you happen to know a way to zip a file without using 7zip? I'm using a Windows machine and tried googling different methods like using tar.exe or powershell but I'm having trouble making them work since I'm not familiar with those applications and the way to write them.

As much as I like the 7zip method, I noticed that sending the file to a compressed zipped folder via Windows has a faster processing time than 7zip. Ideally, if I have larger files to compress, I would like to opt for the zip method with the faster processing time.

Is it enough for me to simply type in Powershell into the Run External Program? I tried browsing for the app location but not sure which one it would be listed under. I try to pick the WindowsPowershell folder under Programs but it branches out into Configurations and Modules and am not sure which folder to pick for the filepath to the Powershell program.

Also what is -Force images/*.*? I understand Compress-Archive is the zip compression command but not sure what the 2nd half of the command argument is saying. I've seen other threads that mention Compress-Archive -Path "filepath" -DestinationPath "filepath.zip" but not sure how I would translate this to be dynamic since I was hoping to write it as

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