![]() ![]() Just keep it simple and people happy by not burdening them with a lot of complexity. I know that makes me sound a bit grumpy, zip has been just fine, until you research how the many compression formats evolved, what kind of modern features did not succeed and you remember early modern devices which struggled with GIF, PDF and so much more. It also generates false positives and it may be annoying for the recipient on a device that cannot handle a particular compression algorithm. The bits and energy you think you can save and be considerate about the environment will go to waste when the many machines between you and the recipient try to be smart and protect people by unpacking and checking everything, which some do. Many modern formats like Office Open XML (DOCX) and OpenDocument (ODF) are already compressed. Avoid zipping, because it might actually be nested zipping or nested compression. unrar x -kb example.rarĪdvice for sharing files: Avoid zipping¹, nested zipping², splitting³, remuxing⁴, etcetera.ġ. First, if the header is corrupted or the header is password protected and you don't know the password, the program has no information about the content of the archive and is therefore unable to extract files.Įxtracting with unrar and the keep broken extracted files option sometimes works, but it depends on the archive contents.
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