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[–] shimdidly@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I totally and completely blame Microsoft for this. They do so many other ridiculous things in the name of not confusing the average tech illiterate user.

Clicking a Zip file and having it transparently open and treating it like a regular folder when it is not. This. THIS is borderline criminal.

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Propose a better way to browse the contents of a zip folder in a native 1st party way

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[–] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Have a popup text line in explorer that says "you are browsing inside of a compressed file, you must extract the contents to use them" or something. The functionality is already there, when you go to "network" it says "network sharing and discovery is turned off, click here to turn it on"

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[+] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Imo not really noob-user friendly.
My proposal: Keep current behaviour and make a prompt if the user tries to run an executable. Prompt should be something like "You are trying to open an executable, would you like to extract the whole folder in the current directory?". This way the user can still browse the zip with relative ease.
Upside from Windows: We have only a handful of extensions unlike (afaik) Linux where everything can be made executable and be run.

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