Win Zipping

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I have a few very large files I want to send via email as a WinZip file. I
want to be able to send the large files but do it in a way that for sending
via email the file is compressed into a small one but upon the recipient
receiving the email file, the unzipping will bring the files original sizes
back. How do I do this with Win Zip?
 
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I have a few very large files I want to send via email as a WinZip
file. I want to be able to send the large files but do it in a way
that for sending via email the file is compressed into a small one
but upon the recipient receiving the email file, the unzipping will
bring the files original sizes back. How do I do this with Win Zip?
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Are you asking how YOU can .zip up the files that get attached?
Windows XP already includes file compression so you can .zip to your
heart's content.

Or are you asking how to ensure the recipient can unzip your .zip
files? You don't get to control what software is installed on the
recipient's host. If they don't have an unzip utility (or they aren't
using Windows XP with its included zip/unzip ability) then they'll
have to go get such a utility.
 
Are you asking how YOU can .zip up the files that get attached?

YES. I know how to zip I just don't know how to make the files smaller in
the zip but still retain their original size for unzipping.


Windows XP already includes file compression so you can .zip to your
heart's content.

How do I do it? Where do I find instructions?
 
I have a few very large files I want to send via email as a WinZip file. I
want to be able to send the large files but do it in a way that for sending
via email the file is compressed into a small one but upon the recipient
receiving the email file, the unzipping will bring the files original sizes
back. How do I do this with Win Zip?
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If you have Winzip installed, just right click and choose send to
e-mail.
Very cool.
 
Starman said:
Are you asking how YOU can .zip up the files that get attached?

YES. I know how to zip I just don't know how to make the files smaller in
the zip but still retain their original size for unzipping.
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That's what zipping *does* - it compresses files and when you unzip them
they automatically get restored to their original sizes. You don't need
to do anything extra. Whether compressing the files will make them small
enough for email is another story. Most ISPs have a cap of 1-1.5MB for
attachments. If your zipped file is considerably bigger, look into other
options such as hosting them on an FTP site or one of the services such
as WhaleMail.


Malke
 
To uncompress the ZIP fiolder, you just right click that file, and select
"Extract".
 
To Zip/Compress the files, select all the files you want to email, right
click the selected files and from the context menu, select "Send To" and
"Compressed Folder" You don't need the "Win Zip" application tool. Windows
has the ability built in.

Then you attach the *.zip file (containing all the files you compressed) to
the email message.

The person at the other end, then saves the ZIp folder to their hard drive
(eg Windows desktop) and rightr clicks and selects "Extract", and can choose
another location, or the same, to extract the files to.

Note, that if you are sending JPG files (images) these are already
compressed since "JPG" is a compression format for files. The file size
probably won't get much smaller in the *.zip folder.
 
Starman said:
I have a few very large files I want to send via email as a WinZip
file. I want to be able to send the large files but do it in a way
that for sending via email the file is compressed into a small one
but upon the recipient receiving the email file, the unzipping will
bring the files original sizes back. How do I do this with Win Zip?
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Send them a self extracting .exe file. WinZip can do that.
 
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Are you asking how YOU can .zip up the files that get attached?

YES. I know how to zip I just don't know how to make the files
smaller in the zip but still retain their original size for
unzipping.
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You specify the compression algorithm (compression level and
compression method) used by the archiving/compression program. Just
don't pick one that isn't supported by the recipient's unzip function.

You don't get to choose the compression algorithm when using the
zipfldr.dll provided in Windows XP. You will need to use a 3rd party
compression tool that lets you choose.
Windows XP already includes file compression so you can .zip to your
heart's content.

How do I do it? Where do I find instructions?
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Start -> Help and Support
Search on "compression".

So are you ever going to divulge which e-mail client with which you
need help to compress attachments? If using Outlook, bxAutoZip (free)
works as an add-in to automatically compress attachments into a single
..zip attachment. You can even specify a threshold under which
attachments are not compressed.
 
But many, if not all mailservers, will not do that. :)
'executable' files are stripped from emails the moment they arrive at a
mailserver's door.
 
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