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7-Zip is pretty awesome. At one point I had a file that simply wouldn't delete in Windows. Came across a random thing online that said to try and delete it from
by sbradford26 7y ago
7-Zip is pretty awesome. At one point I had a file that simply wouldn't delete in Windows. Came across a random thing online that said to try and delete it from 7-Zip. Simple as that 7-Zip was able to delete the file while everything else couldn't.
- qayxc 7y agoThat's a common issue with Windows. The internal file API is much more powerful than the user-accessible front-end programs, which can be very frustrating at times. I had similar issues with corrupted file names created by some application bug. There was no way to delete these invalid file entries using OS-provided tools.
- sbradford26 7y agoThat clears up some of the mystery. I was wondering how 7-Zip could do it but not explorer or command prompt. But it makes lot of sense that 7-Zip is just fully utilizing the internal file API.
- speeder 7y agoAnother weird thing 7-Zip can do: extract files really, really, really correctly. Often I download some japanese games (not pirated stuff, I mean freeware indie games, often being fan-made, like a fan game of some anime or something), and windows Zip somehow extracts them wrong, sometimes files are missing, or the game runs but with corrupted textures and so on. If I extract same games using 7-zip then they work fine. If there are files that use non-latin characters then 7-zip is mandatory, windows just fails to extract those files properly.