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This smells like a bug. I have Windows 11 Pro and I'm seeing weird behavior in this menu. 1. Historically it used to contain a bunch of blank file types, inclu

by Strom 3y ago

This smells like a bug. I have Windows 11 Pro and I'm seeing weird behavior in this menu. 1. Historically it used to contain a bunch of blank file types, including .txt files. 2. Now it only has a Folder, Shortcut, WinRAR archive. That's right, only three items. This has to be a bug.

rightbyte 3y ago
You got WinRAR installed? Is it still alive or are you doing archeology?
- fredoralive 3y ago
  He's got to get value of money out of it, after all registering WinRAR it isn't cheap.
- hulitu 3y ago
  There were a lot of programs distributed as rar archives.
- Strom 3y ago
  I've been using WinRAR for multiple decades and it works well. I'm not about to rearchive all my stuff with a new format so of course I still use it regularly. If I were a new computer user I might choose something else as I certainly experimented with various tools back in 2000. WinAce comes to mind as a decent competitor of the time.
  - ErikGulliksen 3y ago
    I believe 7-Zip can open RAR archives.
    - enlyth 3y ago
      7-Zip's GUI is very lacking, at least on Windows it doesn't have the basic feature of opening the folder where you extracted the files automatically
      - jacooper 3y ago
        Use Peazip then.
        tredre3 3y ago
        ... Or just stick with WinRAR, which works better than both of those, and is still supported?
        jacooper 3y ago
        And is closed source with an annoying pop up on every startup.
    - vram22 3y ago
      Was just going to mention 7-Zip after reading GP post, then read yours. Yes. I've used 7-Zip some, earlier, and found it to be quite good. IIRC, from both command-line and GUI.
      - vram22 3y ago
        And IIRC the command-line options were like tar; they could be typed without a leading hyphen.
  - deleted 3y ago
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- EdwardDiego 3y ago
  I still have a valid WinRAR licence, I think.
- wongarsu 3y ago
  7-zip's GUI is basically an incomplete WinRar clone, and WinRar has a couple more features. Most notably recovery records to be able to recover from mild bit rot, but it can also preserve more NTFS attributes of your files (saving alternate streams, security records, turning hard links into links) and can optionally respect the Archive attribute of files (archiving only files with the attribute set, clearing the attribute after, optionally deleting them). It's a very solid archival program. I wouldn't recommend that everyone runs out and buys it, and I use 7zip more than Winrar, but it does have some advantages, especially on Windows.
  - ComodoHacker 3y ago
    [flagged]
    - Timon3 3y ago
      They just released a new beta last month. Doesn't seem very "stopped" to me.
      - ComodoHacker 3y ago
        After almost a year since last stable.
        Timon3 3y ago
        Then call it slow development, not stopped. A stable a year ago and a beta a month ago is more active than most software out there, for which development literally stopped. Or do you have any affiliation with WinRAR?
        ComodoHacker 3y ago
        No affiliation, I just use both and compare.
  - unnouinceput 3y ago
- robotnikman 3y ago
  Oddly enough, I ran into an odd case a few months ago with a zip file which required me to use winrar. In windows, when you extract a zip file that contains japanese characters, they get 'garbled', which can cause problems if you need to maintain the directory and file names. I tried with 7-Zip as well with the same outcome. I found a fix on stackoverflow [1] which mentioned using winrar, as it had an option to change the name encoding for archived file names. Using that I was able to extract the zip and the files and directories maintained their original japanese names. [1] - https://superuser.com/questions/554108/extracting-a-zip-file-with-japanese-characters-in-the-archive-s-filenames https://superuser.com/questions/554108/extracting-a-zip-file...
  - somat 3y ago
    infozip also has problems with japanese characters. I ended up solving the problem with the python zip module. considerably more awkward to use but it offers a lot of control over the extraction process. I did not look it very closely so I don't know what exactly infozip was getting incorrect in my case. but I did find this interesting bug report from 2012. Apparently a lot of encoders are sloppy about the spec and will leave header fields zeroed rather than set them. and if infozip reads a header that says the zipfile was created by dos(a zero) it believes it and extracts it using a dos compatible encoding. https://sourceforge.net/p/infozip/support-requests/10/ https://sourceforge.net/p/infozip/support-requests/10/

by Strom 3y ago

rightbyte 3y ago

You got WinRAR installed? Is it still alive or are you doing archeology?

fredoralive 3y ago
He's got to get value of money out of it, after all registering WinRAR it isn't cheap.
hulitu 3y ago
There were a lot of programs distributed as rar archives.
Strom 3y ago
I've been using WinRAR for multiple decades and it works well. I'm not about to rearchive all my stuff with a new format so of course I still use it regularly. If I were a new computer user I might choose something else as I certainly experimented with various tools back in 2000. WinAce comes to mind as a decent competitor of the time.
- ErikGulliksen 3y ago
  I believe 7-Zip can open RAR archives.
  - enlyth 3y ago
    7-Zip's GUI is very lacking, at least on Windows it doesn't have the basic feature of opening the folder where you extracted the files automatically
    - jacooper 3y ago
      Use Peazip then.
      - tredre3 3y ago
        ... Or just stick with WinRAR, which works better than both of those, and is still supported?
        jacooper 3y ago
        And is closed source with an annoying pop up on every startup.
  - vram22 3y ago
    Was just going to mention 7-Zip after reading GP post, then read yours. Yes. I've used 7-Zip some, earlier, and found it to be quite good. IIRC, from both command-line and GUI.
    - vram22 3y ago
      And IIRC the command-line options were like tar; they could be typed without a leading hyphen.
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
EdwardDiego 3y ago
I still have a valid WinRAR licence, I think.
wongarsu 3y ago
7-zip's GUI is basically an incomplete WinRar clone, and WinRar has a couple more features. Most notably recovery records to be able to recover from mild bit rot, but it can also preserve more NTFS attributes of your files (saving alternate streams, security records, turning hard links into links) and can optionally respect the Archive attribute of files (archiving only files with the attribute set, clearing the attribute after, optionally deleting them). It's a very solid archival program. I wouldn't recommend that everyone runs out and buys it, and I use 7zip more than Winrar, but it does have some advantages, especially on Windows.
- ComodoHacker 3y ago
  [flagged]
  - Timon3 3y ago
    They just released a new beta last month. Doesn't seem very "stopped" to me.
    - ComodoHacker 3y ago
      After almost a year since last stable.
      - Timon3 3y ago
        Then call it slow development, not stopped. A stable a year ago and a beta a month ago is more active than most software out there, for which development literally stopped. Or do you have any affiliation with WinRAR?
        ComodoHacker 3y ago
        No affiliation, I just use both and compare.
- unnouinceput 3y ago
robotnikman 3y ago
Oddly enough, I ran into an odd case a few months ago with a zip file which required me to use winrar. In windows, when you extract a zip file that contains japanese characters, they get 'garbled', which can cause problems if you need to maintain the directory and file names. I tried with 7-Zip as well with the same outcome. I found a fix on stackoverflow [1] which mentioned using winrar, as it had an option to change the name encoding for archived file names. Using that I was able to extract the zip and the files and directories maintained their original japanese names. [1] - https://superuser.com/questions/554108/extracting-a-zip-file-with-japanese-characters-in-the-archive-s-filenames https://superuser.com/questions/554108/extracting-a-zip-file...
- somat 3y ago
  infozip also has problems with japanese characters. I ended up solving the problem with the python zip module. considerably more awkward to use but it offers a lot of control over the extraction process. I did not look it very closely so I don't know what exactly infozip was getting incorrect in my case. but I did find this interesting bug report from 2012. Apparently a lot of encoders are sloppy about the spec and will leave header fields zeroed rather than set them. and if infozip reads a header that says the zipfile was created by dos(a zero) it believes it and extracts it using a dos compatible encoding. https://sourceforge.net/p/infozip/support-requests/10/ https://sourceforge.net/p/infozip/support-requests/10/