
Third - and this is a biggie - 7z has no internal way of making a recovery record. When you split, you get the numbered crap.
#Winrar 7zip archive#
001 association.Īll 7z archive files should end with. You have to know to go into 7-Zip options and set that.

#Winrar 7zip install#
001 is not an automatically associated extension when you install 7-Zip, so double-clicking on the file doesn't do anything. The way 7z does it is file.7z.001, file.7z.002, and so on. And the cool thing is that with all the files in the same directory, you can click on any one of them and the whole archive will be opened up. The way RAR does it is that when you split an archive into volumes, the file names are, , and so on. 003 file extension crapola for 7z archives split into volumes.

This has been a very longstanding complaint of 7z users, and to date, nothing has been done about it, and it's probably true nothing will be done about it. WinRAR on the other hand has no problem previewing images. If you have a 7z archive full of JPG images, open it up and double-click, you'll get an error in Windows that says the image can't be viewed. but I'm still using RAR, and I'll explain why.ħz, while the superior format that crunches data better and does it faster, suffers from a few things that make it inferior compared to WinRAR.įirst, you can't preview images in a 7z file. RAR was never free unless you use the mobile version. Time goes on, and two other formats start getting popular, RAR and 7-Zip or 7z for short.

Specifically, it was Windows XP because that OS and every Windows since has native support to extract ZIP archive files where you can just double-click on one to open it up. The vast majority of that stuff was in archive files.įirst it started with ZIP files, then LHA and then finally ARJ before the BBS fell out of favor with the masses once internet came around.Įven though ARJ was vastly superior compared to more or less everything else at the time, ZIP became popular again because of Windows. And pretty much every BBS had a files area where you could upload or download stuff. Long ago back in the days before the modern internet, I used BBSes.
