OpenEuphoria

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

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agricu?ture.g?uv.fr> Jun 02, 2008
• 735 views

Dan Moyer wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Even better: other users (like K. Mertenson) reported being asked for a
password, but could view the contents and drag them out.

CChris

> 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