Know Of A Batch Zip Utility?

[johncross85]

Anyone know of a utility that can do a batch zipping of files in a folder? Say I had a folder with 100 jpegs in it, I'd like to be able to run a utility that would create 100 zip files - one for each jpeg. If I could set the utility to truncate the filenames down to 8.3 that would be even better.

Obviously I would never dream of using this for zipping up loads of NES roms

J(ohn)

 

[Dozer]

Anyone know of a utility that can do a batch zipping of files in a folder? Say I had a folder with 100 jpegs in it, I'd like to be able to run a utility that would create 100 zip files - one for each jpeg. If I could set the utility to truncate the filenames down to 8.3 that would be even better.

Obviously I would never dream of using this for zipping up loads of NES roms

J(ohn)

Yup, use winrar. Highlight and right click the files. Right click and select "add to archive". Go to the "files" tab and tick the box "put each file into seperate archive".

I think winzip lets you do it again, but I use winrar so I know how that works B).

Edit: Theres a program that renames files to 8.3 format if that's what you need. The program is called gp32renamer I think but I can't be sure. I deleted it off my pc just the other day as I have no use for it with my cardreader.

 

[GamePark128]

Picozip? It can handle, .gz, .rar, .zip, anything.

 

[Horscht]

well, not sure if the following program is able to do that "seperate archive thingy, but you can have a look. Try google search for "Zip Genius". it can handle zip, czip, rar, cab, tar, tat, tgz, 7zip and a whole lot more.

 

[johncross85]

Anyone know of a utility that can do a batch zipping of files in a folder? Say I had a folder with 100 jpegs in it, I'd like to be able to run a utility that would create 100 zip files - one for each jpeg. If I could set the utility to truncate the filenames down to 8.3 that would be even better.

Obviously I would never dream of using this for zipping up loads of NES roms 

J(ohn)

Yup, use winrar. Highlight and right click the files. Right click and select "add to archive". Go to the "files" tab and tick the box "put each file into seperate archive".

I think winzip lets you do it again, but I use winrar so I know how that works B).

Edit: Theres a program that renames files to 8.3 format if that's what you need. The program is called gp32renamer I think but I can't be sure. I deleted it off my pc just the other day as I have no use for it with my cardreader.

Cheers - that's perfect. I had actually spent a while trying to do it with the command line in WinRAR and I could have just done it easily all along. Ah well.

Thanks again.

J(ohn)

 

[Arda]

beside from your question, I want to mention that zipping Jpeg images has no or very small use. Because a jpeg image is already highly compressed.

 

[Q-Wi-Q]

he's gonna zip up roms with it.

 

[EvilDragon]

well, not sure if the following program is able to do that "seperate archive thingy, but you can have a look. Try google search for "Zip Genius". it can handle zip, czip, rar, cab, tar, tat, tgz, 7zip and a whole lot more.

No, it can't do it (yet).
I requested it, but no one had an idea why it could be useful... so maybe it won'T be implemented at all...

BTW: It's www.zipgenius.it