Do you ever feel like you have to apologize for .7z archives?
Like when you send a .7z instead of a .zip or .rar to a friend or a teacher because that’s what your computer has installed and they’re like “Oh No, not one of those, now I have to install 7Zip” even though the same program that opens .rar also opens .7z I feel like people are way more annoyed when they receive a .7z
We have a few customers that have to download the setup/update and run it on their (windows) server.
It comes as a zip file
The amount of users opening the zip (as a folder. not extracting) and trying to run the .exe is way too high.
Btw: The instructions are always sent with the update mail.
If the zip file only contains an .exe file, it is fine to do it like that.
Windows will just extract the exe somewhere and execute it.
The problem arises when there are dependent files inside the zip as well. If only the .exe is extracted, it won’t find those.
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