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7-Zip: Shell Context Menus

Submitted by kccameron on July 15, 2009 - 4:22pm

The Shell Context Menus work great. Flash drive not connected - no shortcut menu for 7-Zip. Connect the drive - now there's a shortcut menu.

However...
7-zip.dll is loaded as soon as you right-click something in Windows Explorer. That .dll stays loaded until you close that specific instance of Explorer. This prevents the flash drive from being removed safely until all Explorer windows that have seen a right-click have been closed.

7-Zip: Bug or system problem

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Submitted by gmbudwrench on June 24, 2009 - 4:23am

I just updated 7-zip to 4.65 Rev. 2 and in the midst of the installation process, I got this error pop-up:

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7-Zip Portable | PortableApps.com Installer
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Error opening file for writing: F:\PortableApps\7-ZipPortable\App\7-Zip\7-zip.dll Click Abort to stop the installation, Retry to try again, or Ignore to skip this file.
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Abort Retry Ignore
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Create Portable Apps Using 7-Zip?

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Submitted by SeanJohnShaffer on March 19, 2009 - 11:50pm

I know that it is possible to create a portable, "stand-alone" version of a program using Universal Extractor and WinRAR. A tutorial on how to do that can be found at:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4742635_application-portable.html

I was wondering if it were possible to complete that same task using 7-Zip. I do not know if there are specific parameters that must be used or if it is not possible at all. I would much rather create a portable program as shown in the tutorial I linked above but use 7-Zip in place of WinRAR, as I am more comfortable with that program and I prefer it.

7-Zip: Creating splitted archives Winzip-compatible?

Submitted by KlaDie on January 20, 2009 - 7:28am

Hello everybody,

I often have to create splitted archives which has to be compatible to Winzip. So in the past I used Winzip to create these archives. But I would like to switch to 7-Zip when creating these archives. The porblem is, when I create a splitted archive with Winzip I get these Files, e.g:
File.zip
File.z01
File.z02

When I create a splitted archive with 7-zip I get these Files:
File.zip.001
File.zip.002
File.zip.003

Which I can not open with Winzip. Does anyone have an idea how I can solve this problem?

Using 7-Zip Portable from the command line

Submitted by Murple on January 4, 2009 - 6:29pm

Hey,

I'm working on a simple script to let me drop various archive files on to a small GUI to automatically decompress the archive and -if the decompression was successful- delete the original archive. Since I would like my script to be portable I've been trying to use 7za.exe, the help file explains:

"7za.exe (a = alone) is a standalone version of 7-Zip. 7za.exe supports only 7z, cab, zip, gzip, bzip2, Z and tar formats"

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