Anyone very familiar with winrar?

martin57

Hi folks,

I have been using WinRAR for a while now to unpack compressed files, but now want to learn how to compress them, and have run into a few little niggles.

1 Basically what I want to do is compress a file or folder but keep all the compressed files or folders that I do in a particular names folder so as to organise it better.

2 I know that I can right click on a folder and choose "add to archive" but then I get the annoying name of that folder when I right click on anything with my mouse again, how can I stop that happening?

Thanks very much for any advice.

Martin57

JJ_Egan

Win Rar Wizard ???

martin57

JJ_Egan wrote: »

Win Rar Wizard ???

Tried that doesn't make much difference.

maybe I need some similar type software that has got an easier to understand GUI.

Thanks
martin57

bod1467

Try 7-zip. (Free)

AshleyPomeroy

martin57 wrote: »

1 Basically what I want to do is compress a file or folder but keep all the compressed files or folders that I do in a particular names folder so as to organise it better.

I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to achieve. I suspect that clicking on the FILES tab when you add something to an archive and selecting File Paths - > Do Not Store Paths may be what you're looking for.

bluesnake

Just to add my 2P's worth, do not expect vast amounts of space saving when compress jpg, mp3 and compressed video formats, as they are already in a compressed. In some cases the files may actually grow in size.

Be very weary of combination of long path.file names (256 characters - but can be shorter) when compressing and extracting. Often browser short cuts and favourites among others sometime fall foul of this