On 03/11/2010 11:09 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Ellery Newcomer"<[email protected]> wrote in message
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I suppose the name isn't so important, but I really hate zip files whose
contents aren't contained inside a single directory.
This is a bit of a "vim vs emacs" or "static vs dynamic" sort of issue.
Most of the archive programs I've used, including the one I currently use,
put an "Extract to new directory" option into my file manager's right-click
menu. I *always* use that, and consider it downright silly not to. But every
once in a while I'll get an archive that follows the "nothing but one dir"
convention, so I get a useless extra subfolder that I have to either delete
or allow it to clutter up my filesystem, and that just irritates the hell
out of me.
I rarely come across a zip file that doesn't follow that convention, and
I never extract to new directory, but I do always check the contents of
the zip file manually.
Personally, I'm convinced that any archive program that doesn't allow you to
automatically create a subfolder by default is a bad archive program. And
I'm convinced that a convention that places restrictions on the top-level of
a zip is, well, rediculous. But obviously there are people that disagree
with me on that. So, I guess it's a "vim vs emacs" kind of thing.
What I really want is an archive program that automatically makes a
subfolder by default *but* detects if the top level inside the archive
contains nothing more than a single folder and intelligently *not* create a
new folder in that case. But I've yet to see one that does that, and I
haven't had time to make one.
Yeah, I'm thinking I'm going to do that with dmdz
