From the member who brought you the most viewed idea, the idea behind Skrommel's Ghoster, comes this request.
Current problem:
1) You download a zip file, let's say, to your desktop.
2) Double-click the zip file to load the default zip application and press a few other buttons to extract.
- or -
Right mouse button drag-drop to get the context menu to extract.
3) Extract the files to the desktop, and depending how the zip file was originally created and how you unzip it, you get:
i) all the files extracted on the desktop level folder, what a mess.
ii) a folder created with the zip file name, and in that, a second folder that was zipped, then the files with in that. Two levels of folders to go through to get to the files.
iii) a folder with a single installation exe file. Do you really need a folder for one file?
4) Then, after you straightened out the folders mess, you delete the original zip file. I can't stand to see on other people's computer, the zip file and the unzipped folder on the desktop, do you really need the two copies?
Solution:
I would like to see an application do all the work for me. Double click a zip file, the application determines:
1) If there is a single file, extract it on the same level folder as the zip file
2) If there is single folder in the zip file with multiple files in that folder, extract it and put that folder on the same level as the zip file
3) If there is multiple files in the zip file without being zipped with a containing folder, create a folder with the zip filename and extract the files to it.
Then, it deletes the zip file. The only user input is the initial double click.
I know I'm not the only one that runs into this inconvenience. And there are a million archive extractors out there, but none I've seen can do this.
Current problem:
1) You download a zip file, let's say, to your desktop.
2) Double-click the zip file to load the default zip application and press a few other buttons to extract.
- or -
Right mouse button drag-drop to get the context menu to extract.
3) Extract the files to the desktop, and depending how the zip file was originally created and how you unzip it, you get:
i) all the files extracted on the desktop level folder, what a mess.
ii) a folder created with the zip file name, and in that, a second folder that was zipped, then the files with in that. Two levels of folders to go through to get to the files.
iii) a folder with a single installation exe file. Do you really need a folder for one file?
4) Then, after you straightened out the folders mess, you delete the original zip file. I can't stand to see on other people's computer, the zip file and the unzipped folder on the desktop, do you really need the two copies?
Solution:
I would like to see an application do all the work for me. Double click a zip file, the application determines:
1) If there is a single file, extract it on the same level folder as the zip file
2) If there is single folder in the zip file with multiple files in that folder, extract it and put that folder on the same level as the zip file
3) If there is multiple files in the zip file without being zipped with a containing folder, create a folder with the zip filename and extract the files to it.
Then, it deletes the zip file. The only user input is the initial double click.
I know I'm not the only one that runs into this inconvenience. And there are a million archive extractors out there, but none I've seen can do this.
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but a gui would be nice. nothing spectacular, just a drag-drop area with the settings visible below it. just in case, someone decides not delete the zip file after extracting.
), and it has very good commandline support ans OS features (saves NTFS alternate streams and security info) - plus unrar is free & has source code available.
- carpe noctem
Anyway, here's a new version which won't overwrite anymore, ever. Please let me know if it works. 