idek if 7zip is better than winrar anymore assuming both are being updated constantly, but like... My memory is that pretty much every tech oriented person on windows uses 7zip.
idek if 7zip is better than winrar anymore assuming both are being updated constantly, but like... My memory is that pretty much every tech oriented person on windows uses 7zip.
There's a bug in windows that I had to fix once:
It would write a log file and automatically compress it... Unless the log file came out longer than expected. If that happened, it would compress as much as it could, and then it would fail and try again with a new destination file, which would of course fail because it's the same source file as last time. In other words, it would fill your storage to the brim no matter how much you had
This was years back in Windows 7, and the bug had been known since XP. Idk if it's made it into 11, but I wouldn't be shocked
My favorite is how the OS supports path names longer than 260 characters, but PowerShell, File Explorer, and Command Prompt all flip their shit if you try to delete a directory containing a file with a long path name (e.g., shit generated by a Java IDE or build tool). This even includes the Shift+DEL trick to bypass the recycle bin. The "fix"? Create an empty directory and use RoboCopy.EXE to mirror the empty directory onto the directory that you wish to delete, and then delete both of them. Simplicity itself!
Meanwhile, Cygwin or MinGW Bash will remove the directory with no issues, and, incidentally, so will 7zip's file browser UI.
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