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I haven't used a Windows machine since 2005, so I'm a bit out of touch on it. Last I recall the zip functionality was integrated into the Windows file explorer, and extraction involved double-clicking on the zip file, which opened up the zip as if it was just another folder, and allowing the copying of individual files, or a function that extracted the full zip. It was pretty intuitive from what I remember. I would think an independent program to handle the creation, extraction, and manipulation of zip files would be a more clunky and time-consuming solution. 🤷‍♂️

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lkraider 10mo ago

Yes but try to explain to grandma that a zip file is not a folder, and that’s why she cannot edit files inside and thus must first copy them to another folder and then put them back into the zip folder/file if she wants to send the edited file back in a manageable size. As it is, it’s a leaky abstraction unfortunately.

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