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Show total time spent unzipping and time remaining.

It is useful for bigger zip files. It would work by showing how much time is spent unzipping files and how much time is left to unzip all files.
Guest over 1 year ago in Improvement 0 Community Voting

Add Zip Option to duplicate file finder so I could save a backup before deleting.

With this suggestion (Zip option in duplicate file finder) users would now have a backup of the duplicates they chose to remove just in case there were files the needed duplicate or not.
Guest almost 2 years ago in Improvement 0 Community Voting

Winzip suddenly unzipped some files that I was unaware of. Would like a history file to track

I was in media player updating my music library when suddenly there was a notification from Winzip indicating it was unzipping either zip files or PDF's. Would be nice to have a log file that would help track things like that. The items were thing...
Donald Hopfe about 1 year ago in New Feature 2 Community Voting

Auto Batch File Conversion

Hello Everybody, This my idea: I have 50 folders with files to back up, for example. I need to zip all of its folders with their contents . I select all of the folders. A parameters window opens. I have the possibility to choose between grouping...
Thierry Chadelaud over 1 year ago in New Feature 0 Community Voting

Only zip a single copy of a file or directory when there is multiple Links

When Zipping a file/directory that has multiple Hard, Symbolic or Junction links, only store it once in the compressed file but create reference pointer to that compressed data for each link reference stored in the compressed file. When uncompress...
Craig Gunhouse over 1 year ago in New Feature 1 Community Voting

Link Unwinding

As a long term client of WinZip I hereby request the feature of link unwinding. There need to be an option that would allow link targets to be added in the place of the links. Operation: If I have a directory full of LNK files and I wish to create...
Guest over 1 year ago in New Feature 0 Community Voting

time machine for folder

time machine is continuous backup, but the scope is defined (eg., folder). The folder is continuously monitored, and backed up into a zip archive, and we can go back in time and open older versions of its content.
Guest over 1 year ago in New Feature 0 Community Voting

Prevent ESC key from attempting to close file/save changes in PDF express.

Usage of the ESC key on radio buttons and check-box in an interactive PDF file displays the save-changes dialog that attempt to close PDF express after the operation is performed. It is worth noting that for the following applications: Adobe Acrob...
Tosan Velor almost 2 years ago in Improvement 0 Community Voting

Right click option on the Windows File Manager to Move or Add selected files into a new (named) Zip Archive.

I think this was an older Winzip feature. If I select a group of files in the windows file explorer, and right click, I had the option to move or copy those files into a new archive. When I clicked on the option, a window opened so that I could na...
Pam Garrett 4 months ago in Improvement 0 Community Voting

Continue with invalid file extensions

If the WinZip file contains many files with extensions that are invalid or too long, WinZip will display an error message and give you the option to skip the file. Unfortunately, if there are many such files, WinZip does not provide the option to ...
Ken Williams 5 months ago in Improvement 0 Community Voting