OpenEuphoria

Re: WinXP zip password problem (was: Re: graph.ew)

• Posted by Dan Moyer <danielmoyer at prodig?.ne?> Jun 02, 2008
• 732 views

CChris wrote:
> 
> Dan Moyer wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Don't mean to make a problem for you, just seems more than a few people will
> > try to use XP native to unzip it, not be able to, & give up.  I'm not
> > familiar with Directory Opus, but looking at their website I wonder if 
> > maybe you accidentaly left encryption on as a default?  Probably not, just
> > occured to me from their online doc:
> > 
> > "Ask for encryption and compression settings when copying files into ZIP
> > files:
> > This option selects whether Opus should prompt you for settings whenever you
> > copy files into the ZIP archive."
> > 
> > Dan
> 
> I'm not on my home machine right now.
> But, if there was some encryption, dragging the contents wouldn't extract
> them,
> would it?
> 
> CChris

Sorry, not sure what you mean; what I'm wildly guessing is maybe you have
a default option that encrypts files as you zip them, and that could be why
when WinXP tries to unzip them it asks for the password to decrypt.  After 
a moments thought, however, I would think you'd be asked for a password
FOR the encryption if that default encryption was happening, so maybe I'm
barking up the wrong tree.  Oh, maybe you meant that you've TESTED your zip
by unzipping it with the Directory Opus, and got no request for password?
Yeah, if that's the case, it would seem it's NOT being encrypted.

Mike, Matt, thanks, I've seen the threads that mention other utilities to
unzip user contributions, I was just saying, as Don mentioned, that many
people may just be using WinXP native unzip, so it might be good to make
sure contribs can be unzipped by it.  I guess at worst case, a general 
mention of various other unzip utilities could be included on contribs page
or any individual contribs with known problem unzipping could make their
own reference to various unzip utilities in their description?

Dan