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riga
04-20-2005, 09:48 AM
Zipping removes File Properties.
I mean in Windows Explorer if you right-click on file,
choose Properties and go to Summary
all things there are gone after you zip the file.
Any way to preserve it?
BertImmenschuh
04-20-2005, 10:15 AM
Are you checking the original file or the Zipped file? I would think you have to extract the file to view its Properties. At least that's the way it works on my WinXP Pro.

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riga
04-20-2005, 10:32 AM
Thanks for response, BertImmenschuh!

Of course I extract it. But all's gone from Summary Tab.
riga
04-20-2005, 10:38 AM
By the way I'm using Windows 2000 Professional
with the latest SP.
riga
04-20-2005, 10:40 AM
BertImmenschuh,

Which version of WinZip you
re using?
riga
04-20-2005, 10:59 AM
I tried WinRaR 3.42
The same thing.
All is gone from Properties/Summary Tab
after I exctract the archived file.
Brf
04-20-2005, 11:39 AM
WinZip? You dont need that..... Win2K can zip files by itself. Just right-click on the file and choose "Sendto Compressed Folder"
BertImmenschuh
04-20-2005, 12:35 PM
I've got WinZip 9 now on WinXP and Win2000. If I'm not mistaken, WinXP is the first to include file compression [think it's a 'lite' version licensed from WinZip].

<font color=blue>Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.</font color=blue> <font color=green>Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.</font color=green>
Brf
04-20-2005, 01:09 PM
No. Win2K and even WinME have built-in Compressed Folders.
riga
04-20-2005, 01:20 PM
When I
right-click on the file and choose "Sendto Compressed Folder"
BertImmenschuh
04-20-2005, 02:55 PM
Brf, thanks for that but Compressed Folders is not available on the Win2000 Pro computer I'm working on and Add/Remove Programs doesn't show it installed or as a choice to be installed. Guess I'll have to tell the owners that with some other problems they have that they're looking at a complete rebuild.

<font color=blue>Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.</font color=blue> <font color=green>Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.</font color=green>