send to compressed (zip) folder

I want to compress a folder c:\myfolder and place the
compressed file in a directory c:\archive

I mouse right click on the folder name in Explorer, and choose "send
to compressed (zipped) folder"

It says "Windows cannot create the compressee (zipped) folder here. Do
you want it to be placed on the desktop instead?"

I click "yes", and it zips and places the zipped file at;
C:\Users\Tadeusz S\Desktop

I then move the zipped file to c:\archive

Is there some way of zipping the file into c:\archive without the
intermediate step of saving to Desktop and then moving?

TY for answers.

lid wrote:
I want to compress a folder c:\myfolder and place the
compressed file in a directory c:\archive

I mouse right click on the folder name in Explorer, and choose "send
to compressed (zipped) folder"

It says "Windows cannot create the compressee (zipped) folder here. Do
you want it to be placed on the desktop instead?"

I click "yes", and it zips and places the zipped file at;
C:\Users\Tadeusz S\Desktop

I then move the zipped file to c:\archive

Is there some way of zipping the file into c:\archive without the
intermediate step of saving to Desktop and then moving?

TY for answers.

Your problem is, you cannot write to the root of C:/

If you want to compress

C:\myfolder

it is added as

C:\myfolder.zip

and that requires writing to the root level of C: partition. Writing
to the root level of a partition, is considered a means of doing
exploits and is blocked.

*******

If you wanted to compress

C:\myfolder\somefolder

it would not complain and would make

C:\myfolder\somefolder.zip

Try that one first, and verify that it works.

*******

For more flexible routing of ZIP output, try 7-ZIP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-zip

It should remember the last compression setting. It
creates context menu entries, such as "Add to Archive",
and then you can select the destination folder for the
..zip output.

The only way to make it even better, would be to make
a watched folder of some sort, and perhaps some
third party compression tool would do that. Or
an archiver program of some sort. There's probably some
way to get exactly what you want. I don't have any
method set up here, which is that automated.

And it doesn't look like Microsoft wants their
built-in compressor, to be too easy to use. They
probably could have made an EXE version, if they wanted
it to be useful.

The 7-ZIP program, does come with a command line version,
and you could prepare a shortcut on your desktop. However,
try as I might, I wasn't able to make a shortcut that
did the right thing. Maybe I need to launch a cmd.exe to
get it to parse the arguments properly or something. It
interprets a %1 properly for one argument, but not for any
other arguments.

Paul

On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 08:59:40 -0400, Paul wrote:

wrote:
I want to compress a folder c:\myfolder and place the
compressed file in a directory c:\archive

I mouse right click on the folder name in Explorer, and choose "send
to compressed (zipped) folder"

It says "Windows cannot create the compressee (zipped) folder here. Do
you want it to be placed on the desktop instead?"

I click "yes", and it zips and places the zipped file at;
C:\Users\Tadeusz S\Desktop

I then move the zipped file to c:\archive

Is there some way of zipping the file into c:\archive without the
intermediate step of saving to Desktop and then moving?

TY for answers.

Your problem is, you cannot write to the root of C:/

If you want to compress

C:\myfolder

it is added as

C:\myfolder.zip

and that requires writing to the root level of C: partition. Writing
to the root level of a partition, is considered a means of doing
exploits and is blocked.


I believe that's a UAC thing, IIRC. Disable UAC and it should proceed
without any complaints. I have no problem writing to the root of C:.


--

Char Jackson

Char Jackson wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 08:59:40 -0400, Paul wrote:

lid wrote:
I want to compress a folder c:\myfolder and place the
compressed file in a directory c:\archive

I mouse right click on the folder name in Explorer, and choose "send
to compressed (zipped) folder"

It says "Windows cannot create the compressee (zipped) folder here. Do
you want it to be placed on the desktop instead?"

I click "yes", and it zips and places the zipped file at;
C:\Users\Tadeusz S\Desktop

I then move the zipped file to c:\archive

Is there some way of zipping the file into c:\archive without the
intermediate step of saving to Desktop and then moving?

TY for answers.
Your problem is, you cannot write to the root of C:/

If you want to compress

C:\myfolder

it is added as

C:\myfolder.zip

and that requires writing to the root level of C: partition. Writing
to the root level of a partition, is considered a means of doing
exploits and is blocked.


I believe that's a UAC thing, IIRC. Disable UAC and it should proceed
without any complaints. I have no problem writing to the root of C:.

I run into similar problems, with programs that won't list the contents
of C:\ recursively, starting at the root. And my account belongs
to the administrator group. And no UAC prompt is showing.

The 2006 version of "contig" from Sysinternals, is able to list
the contents of C: starting at the root. Later versions cannot. I
don't know if developers are complicit in this matter, or rather
later tools were compiled with a different version of Visual Studio,
different library calls, and then different behavior shows up.

I try to work problems, without disabling UAC or enabling
hidden administrator accounts. As if not having these
things, was a good thing. I don't want to encourage the
"let me smash this OS and make a copy of Win98 out of it"
mentality :-) You'll eventually pay a price if you do that.
Maybe the next large update from Microsoft won't work.
If you could smash all the permissions, and there was
an ironclad guarantee of no side effects, I'd be all
for it :-) This is one of the reasons I run FAT32
on WinXP - not because it's particularly clever,
but because the OS was designed to work with that
option in place. So I'm using it.

Paul

On 9/29/2014 8:50 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 08:59:40 -0400, Paul wrote:

lid wrote:
I want to compress a folder c:\myfolder and place the
compressed file in a directory c:\archive

I mouse right click on the folder name in Explorer, and choose "send
to compressed (zipped) folder"

It says "Windows cannot create the compressee (zipped) folder here. Do
you want it to be placed on the desktop instead?"

I click "yes", and it zips and places the zipped file at;
C:\Users\Tadeusz S\Desktop

I then move the zipped file to c:\archive

Is there some way of zipping the file into c:\archive without the
intermediate step of saving to Desktop and then moving?

TY for answers.

Your problem is, you cannot write to the root of C:/

If you want to compress

C:\myfolder

it is added as

C:\myfolder.zip

and that requires writing to the root level of C: partition. Writing
to the root level of a partition, is considered a means of doing
exploits and is blocked.


I believe that's a UAC thing, IIRC. Disable UAC and it should proceed
without any complaints. I have no problem writing to the root of C:.


I got so fed up with all the permission crap that I took ownership
of the whole damn C: drive and gave myself permission for everything.
Turned off UAC.
Now, It's MY operating system to use as I wish!!!

If I wanted security, I'd use pencil and paper and store it in a lockbox.

On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 00:07:05 -0400, Paul wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 08:59:40 -0400, Paul wrote:

lid wrote:
I want to compress a folder c:\myfolder and place the
compressed file in a directory c:\archive

I mouse right click on the folder name in Explorer, and choose "send
to compressed (zipped) folder"

It says "Windows cannot create the compressee (zipped) folder here. Do
you want it to be placed on the desktop instead?"

I click "yes", and it zips and places the zipped file at;
C:\Users\Tadeusz S\Desktop

I then move the zipped file to c:\archive

Is there some way of zipping the file into c:\archive without the
intermediate step of saving to Desktop and then moving?

TY for answers.
Your problem is, you cannot write to the root of C:/

If you want to compress

C:\myfolder

it is added as

C:\myfolder.zip

and that requires writing to the root level of C: partition. Writing
to the root level of a partition, is considered a means of doing
exploits and is blocked.


I believe that's a UAC thing, IIRC. Disable UAC and it should proceed
without any complaints. I have no problem writing to the root of C:.

I try to work problems, without disabling UAC or enabling
hidden administrator accounts. As if not having these
things, was a good thing. I don't want to encourage the
"let me smash this OS and make a copy of Win98 out of it"
mentality :-) You'll eventually pay a price if you do that.

That's the key difference between us. I'm not trying to work problems, I'm
just trying to use my computer without the OS getting in the way, so for me
one of the very first things to do is to disable UAC (and System Restore and
a bunch of other stuff, but UAC for the purpose of this discussion).

I'm not aware of any price to pay for disabling UAC. It's all upside, no
downside. I've yet to see a single person, myself included, who stopped to
read a UAC prompt before clicking it to proceed. I don't see that it
provides any additional protection, and that includes the malware argument.

Maybe the next large update from Microsoft won't work.

Not really possible. Disabling UAC is an option provided right there in the
OS itself. It's not a hack of any kind, so there should be absolutely no
worries. I'm sure you know that, so I don't understand the statement.

If you could smash all the permissions, and there was
an ironclad guarantee of no side effects, I'd be all
for it :-)

Then you should be all for it.

This is one of the reasons I run FAT32
on WinXP - not because it's particularly clever,
but because the OS was designed to work with that
option in place. So I'm using it.

Is that a true statement? I don't think that it is, BICBW.


--

Char Jackson

On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 22:50:40 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 08:59:40 -0400, Paul wrote:

wrote:
I want to compress a folder c:\myfolder and place the
compressed file in a directory c:\archive

I mouse right click on the folder name in Explorer, and choose "send
to compressed (zipped) folder"

It says "Windows cannot create the compressee (zipped) folder here. Do
you want it to be placed on the desktop instead?"

I click "yes", and it zips and places the zipped file at;
C:\Users\Tadeusz S\Desktop

I then move the zipped file to c:\archive

Is there some way of zipping the file into c:\archive without the
intermediate step of saving to Desktop and then moving?

TY for answers.

Your problem is, you cannot write to the root of C:/

If you want to compress

C:\myfolder

it is added as

C:\myfolder.zip

and that requires writing to the root level of C: partition. Writing
to the root level of a partition, is considered a means of doing
exploits and is blocked.


I believe that's a UAC thing, IIRC. Disable UAC and it should proceed
without any complaints. I have no problem writing to the root of C:.

That's correct. I disabled UAC and "send to compressed folder" placed
the zipfile in the root directory.

The intended destination for the zpifile is c:\archive
so it makes little difference whether the intermediate directory is
root, or "C:\Users\Tadeusz S\Desktop"

There is no way of changing the "send to compressed folder"
destination directory, is there?

An alternative is to use WinRAR to place the zipfile in c:\archive
directly, but I can't be bothered. I've been using the "send to
compressed folder" for years and "if it ain't broke don't fix it".

In article ,
lid says...

On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 00:07:05 -0400, Paul wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 08:59:40 -0400, Paul wrote:

lid wrote:
I want to compress a folder c:\myfolder and place the
compressed file in a directory c:\archive

I mouse right click on the folder name in Explorer, and choose "send
to compressed (zipped) folder"

It says "Windows cannot create the compressee (zipped) folder here. Do
you want it to be placed on the desktop instead?"

I click "yes", and it zips and places the zipped file at;
C:\Users\Tadeusz S\Desktop

I then move the zipped file to c:\archive

Is there some way of zipping the file into c:\archive without the
intermediate step of saving to Desktop and then moving?

TY for answers.
Your problem is, you cannot write to the root of C:/

If you want to compress

C:\myfolder

it is added as

C:\myfolder.zip

and that requires writing to the root level of C: partition. Writing
to the root level of a partition, is considered a means of doing
exploits and is blocked.


I believe that's a UAC thing, IIRC. Disable UAC and it should proceed
without any complaints. I have no problem writing to the root of C:.

I try to work problems, without disabling UAC or enabling
hidden administrator accounts. As if not having these
things, was a good thing. I don't want to encourage the
"let me smash this OS and make a copy of Win98 out of it"
mentality :-) You'll eventually pay a price if you do that.

That's the key difference between us. I'm not trying to work problems, I'm

The only reason I can fathom to still use Fat32 is for anything that if
worst comes to worst you can boot DOS on a floppy and access the drive.
There's so many issues using Fat32 on todays systems, file size
limitation seems to be the first followed by disk size limitation
followed by ...

On 9/30/2014 3:25 PM, lid wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 22:50:40 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 08:59:40 -0400, Paul wrote:

lid wrote:
I want to compress a folder c:\myfolder and place the
compressed file in a directory c:\archive

I mouse right click on the folder name in Explorer, and choose "send
to compressed (zipped) folder"

It says "Windows cannot create the compressee (zipped) folder here. Do
you want it to be placed on the desktop instead?"

I click "yes", and it zips and places the zipped file at;
C:\Users\Tadeusz S\Desktop

I then move the zipped file to c:\archive

Is there some way of zipping the file into c:\archive without the
intermediate step of saving to Desktop and then moving?

TY for answers.

Your problem is, you cannot write to the root of C:/

If you want to compress

C:\myfolder

it is added as

C:\myfolder.zip

and that requires writing to the root level of C: partition. Writing
to the root level of a partition, is considered a means of doing
exploits and is blocked.


I believe that's a UAC thing, IIRC. Disable UAC and it should proceed
without any complaints. I have no problem writing to the root of C:.

That's correct. I disabled UAC and "send to compressed folder" placed
the zipfile in the root directory.

The intended destination for the zpifile is c:\archive
so it makes little difference whether the intermediate directory is
root, or "C:\Users\Tadeusz S\Desktop"

There is no way of changing the "send to compressed folder"
destination directory, is there?

An alternative is to use WinRAR to place the zipfile in c:\archive
directly, but I can't be bothered. I've been using the "send to
compressed folder" for years and "if it ain't broke don't fix it".

7-zip and send it anywhere

On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 01:29:01 -0700, mike wrote:

If I wanted security, I'd use pencil and paper and store it in a lockbox.

And don't forget to do it all in Navajo.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:25:28 +0100, lid wrote:

An alternative is to use WinRAR to place the zipfile in c:\archive
directly, but I can't be bothered. I've been using the "send to
compressed folder" for years and "if it ain't broke don't fix it".

I mostly agree with your philosophy. WinRAR is my tool of choice, but only
because I've been using it for nearly 20 years now, so I'm pretty
comfortable with it. A lot of people use 7-Zip, and I'd bet there's still
someone, somewhere, who uses WinZIP, but I could be wrong on that last one.

--

Char Jackson

pjp wrote:


The only reason I can fathom to still use Fat32 is for anything that if
worst comes to worst you can boot DOS on a floppy and access the drive.
There's so many issues using Fat32 on todays systems, file size
limitation seems to be the first followed by disk size limitation
followed by ...

On my FAT32 setup, "large data" in the form of 30GB .vhd files
for virtual machines, are kept on more than one NTFS partition.

I don't typically download anything large on that FAT32 OS. The
last time I had a "doh!" moment, was downloading a Knoppix DVD
that happened to exceed 4GB. Without thinking the %temp% was
on FAT32, and would cause the download to die horribly. What
a waste of download time. It's a lesson I learned from,
and it hasn't been repeated.

Some operations here, might use multiple spindles, and
again, the OS partition isn't involved. My OS drives
typically have four partitions, and the fourth partition
is usually a large NTFS one. So there are plenty of
spindles ready for "large data", for taking a snapshot
of a .vhd, and so on. I don't use Extended/Logical
partitioning, as I don't have a need for it.

The last idiotic partitioning scheme I had, was having
20 partitions on my Macintosh, because some commercial backup
software had a 2GB file size limit. And I think for that
particular OS version, 20 partitions was all it could handle.
(If you had a 21st partition, it would not display.) I'd
already paid for the backup software, and swore an oath
no other 2GB backup software would profit from this
mistake. The backup software could make as large
a backup as you could want... if the destination
was a tape drive. Which I don't own. For hard drive
to hard drive backups, it had a 2GB limit. And this
was a number of years ago obviously.

Paul