Ratio of compression depends on the type of file. With pure text, and long text, compression can reach 90 or higher percent (i.e. size of 10% or less of original). However, with EXEs and pre-compressed files like ZIP the decrease will be minimal, or even INCREASE in size due to the need to add security / error-checking information.
Looks like you did it right. Don't worry about it.
You can use download another archiver soft to unzip the file, such as MultiUnzipper that will unzip all the files you select at once, An great time saver.
ALZip is a file compression utility, which makes files smaller, for faster downloading. You can get the program for free from
brothersoft.com. They verify all posted files are malware free, so you can trust files you download from them. I'll attach a link to the ALZip download page for you. But if Yahoo kills the link, just go to brothersoft.com and search for ALZip. Good luck!
you must get the password to open it. go back to the site you got it from, read through carefully, you will see the password there or a reference to where you can get the password. if you can get the password, you've lost the file
There are two possible reasons: spanned archives or corrupted files. If
they were spanned onto floppies, make sure you know the order of the
floppies and put the last disk in. Otherwise, the archive may be
corrupted. In this case click Cancel to extract as much as possible and hope for the best.
When a "Header corrupt" message appears, there may be a virus problem or
other download problem. This is not a problem with ALZip or the ALZip
Self-Extractor.
If you downloaded the archive, try downloading it again. If you
downloaded it by ftp, remember to set your ftp client to binary mode,
and not ASCII mode.
Password protecting files protects you against casual users who don't
have the password and try to spy on the contents of your files.
As a security measure, passwords are only set by the person who
first creates the archive, when they create the archive. Subsequent
users, including the person who created the archive, cannot alter or
change the password. Not even the ALZip developers at ESTsoft Corp. can
access your passwords. So if you lose a password, don't call us because
there isn't anything we can do about it. But you can try the ALZip password retriever.
WOW! You've got a VERY old version of ALZip installed then (a few years at least). You should really upgrade to the newest version.
However, even with versions that old, don't worry. That just means that your ancient copy of ALZip is unregistered.
If you look in the upper-right hand corner of ALZip, you'll see a
little info banner. Ancient versions of ALZip were just checking for an
update - but there never were any updates for those versions. All info
banner information was completely blind. i.e. No information was
collected about you or anything like that. The small info banner blindly
tried to grab whatever banner was available and display it. ALZip never
sent any information; it just tried getting some information.
We're glad that you've chosen to use ALZip and your trust is
valuable to us, so we are not going to do anything to jeopardize that.
If you have any concerns, please email us; we'd be more than happy to
answer any concerns or questions you might have.
Yes, but you can only extract RAR files due to copyright issues. Eugene
Roshal of RarSoft, the company that makes WinRAR, doesn't allow other
utilities to create RAR archive files.
In general, you must have an archiving utility to extract files from
archives. However, what if your friends don't have a utility to extract
the archive files that you send to them? The ALZip Self-Extractor solves
that problem for you. ALZip can tranform archive files into an
executable format with an EXE extension, eliminating the need for
external utilities.
For example, you can archive and transform the file estsoft.txt to estsoft.exe as follows:
1. Create an archive file, estsoft.zip, from estsoft.txt.
2. Right-click the file, estsoft.zip, and choose ALZip Self-Extractor from your context menu.
3. The ALZip Self-Extractor dialog box prompts you to configure a few options. Click the OK button.
4. The executable file estsoft.exe is then created.
For ZIP archives, you don't need to have the first disk, but you do need
to have the last disk. A record of all the files in the archive is
stored on the last disk in the ZIP archive, and without that record, you
cannot access any of the files in the archive.
To extract files from a spanned ZIP archive, insert the last disk
and open the archive file. Extract files as you would normally and
follow the directions to insert other disks as needed. If you are asked
for a disk that you do not have, you will not be able to extract files
that are on that disk.
With the ALZ archive format, the record of which volume files are stored in resides in the first file, the ALZ file.
To extract files from an ALZ archive, open the first volume (the ALZ
file) and extract files you normally would. If you are prompted for a
file that you do not have, click Cancel. You will still be able to get to any files that reside in previous volumes.
Yes. When you create ZIP floppy disk spanned archives, all archiving
utilities, including WinZip, that support the ZIP file format can
extract them. With ALZip ALZ hard disk spanned archives, however, you
can only extract those files with ALZip. Currently no other utilities
support ALZ compression.
WinZip supports spanned archives under the name Multple Disk Spanning or disk spanning. Specifying a path to an archive as A:\Filename.zip automatically spans archives with a fixed size (1,457,664 bytes). Every file receives the same name on every floppy disk, i.e. Filename.zip. However, each disk receives a different label as detailed above, i.e. PKBACK# 001, PKBACK# 002, etc.
As each spanned volume has the same name and must be extracted from
floppy, downloading them on the net is seriously problematic at best.
You cannot distinguish file sequences. Actually retrieving the archived
files requires a significant amount of knowledge and work from users.
However, using ALZip Spanned archives helps you easily solve problem
this problem. ALZip supports all the file formats WinZip does and also
supports spanning archives directly on hard disks. You can select custom
volume sizes with ALZip and can also easily distinguish file sequences
by the extension. This makes transferring spanned archives on the net
trivial.