Zipgenius 6 Help
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Table of contents Introduction ........................................................................................................... 2 Why compression is useful? ................................................................................ 2 Supported archives ............................................................................................ 3 ZipGenius features ............................................................................................. 5 Updates ............................................................................................................ 7 System requirements ......................................................................................... 8 Unattended setup .............................................................................................. 8 User Interface ........................................................................................................ 8 Toolbars ............................................................................................................ 8 Common Tasks Bar ............................................................................................ 9 First Step Assistant .......................................................................................... 10 History ............................................................................................................ 10 Windows integration ........................................................................................ 12 Folder view ...................................................................................................... 14 Options ................................................................................................................ 16 Main settings ................................................................................................... 16 User information .............................................................................................. 16 Layout ............................................................................................................. 17 Paths ............................................................................................................... 19 External compression tools ............................................................................... 20 Advanced settings ............................................................................................ 20 Safety and privacy ........................................................................................... 22 Common actions .................................................................................................. 23 How to create an archive ................................................................................. 23 Adding files / folders ........................................................................................ 23 Compression levels .......................................................................................... 27 Brutal + UPX precompression ....................................................................... 27 Extracting files ................................................................................................. 28 Deleting files ................................................................................................... 31 How to rename an archive ............................................................................... 31 How to sign archives ........................................................................................ 31 The "readme.txt" file ........................................................................................ 32 Installing applications ...................................................................................... 32 How to rename files in archive ......................................................................... 32 How to preview a file ....................................................................................... 32 Creating a self-extracting archive (SFX) ............................................................ 33 Protect files with password ............................................................................... 38 Advanced actions ................................................................................................. 38 Interaction with antivirus software .................................................................... 38 Multivolume archives ........................................................................................ 39 Encrypting archives with CZIP 2.1 ..................................................................... 40 Scan & Zip ....................................................................................................... 42 Create a slideshow (ZG Album) ......................................................................... 43 Command line ................................................................................................. 44 -add ............................................................................................................ 44 -backup ....................................................................................................... 50 -oerestore ................................................................................................... 52 Copyright © 1997-2020 by The ZipGenius Team. 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ZipGenius 6 Help -extract ....................................................................................................... 52 -delete ........................................................................................................ 55 -destroy ...................................................................................................... 56 -print ........................................................................................................... 56 -export ........................................................................................................ 56 -mail ........................................................................................................... 57 -sfx ............................................................................................................. 57 -optim ......................................................................................................... 65 -encrypt ...................................................................................................... 65 Exporting the files list ....................................................................................... 66 Backup features ............................................................................................... 67 Optimization for Libre/OpenOffice documents .................................................... 69 Optimization for WinAmp and Windows Media Player ......................................... 70 Search features ................................................................................................ 70 Opening multiple archives (MultiOpen) .............................................................. 71 ZGTools ............................................................................................................... 72 What are ZGTools? ........................................................................................... 72 How to create a ZGTool? .................................................................................. 72 Cutter .............................................................................................................. 74 Internet features .................................................................................................. 75 Send archives via e-mail / FTP .......................................................................... 75 FTPGenius ....................................................................................................... 75 UU/XX/MIME-Base64 files encoding .................................................................. 75 Troubleshooting ................................................................................................... 76 F.A.Q. .............................................................................................................. 76 User's Guide v. 6.3.2.3117 - english Thank You! Thank you for choosing ZipGenius, the truly free file compression utility for Windows™. Please, read carefully this help file if you want to get the better experience from ZipGenius. If you want to support this project, feel free to donate through PayPal. If you paid to download and/or use ZipGenius, please report it so we could take action against this thief. Created with the Personal Edition of HelpNDoc: Write eBooks for the Kindle 2 / 80 ZipGenius 6 Help The answer to this question becomes as more obvious as time passes by and the Internet spreads around the world: tomorrow way or working is just arrived. Today many people work and collaborate through the Internet and they often need share projects and documents; nowadays, this kind of stuff is a huge amount of bytes to transfer through the net and, even if broadband networks are spreading quickly, transferring a big file may be a problem and it could represent a loss of productivity. Compression programs allow to reduce the size of a file, as much as it is possible, and work becomes faster and easier. But everyone can take advantages from file compression: students can store their researches over the Internet and bring them to school, or digital artists can share