An archive will exist only if it contains one or more files.

This procedure depends by user selected layout.

In ôNORMALö mode actions are driven by ZipGenius Wizard, which will explain what to do step after step; in "EXPERT" mode, instead, you have to do the following steps:

FILES SELECTION
You will see ZipGenius "Open file" dialog, where you can select one or more files to be added. When satisfied, click "ADD".

compression OPTIONS
In this dialog you will find the options available to compress files:

1) Main settings:

• Compression level: there are 5 levels available. The first one just stores files without compression and it's the fastest way to zip files; second and third levels offer proportionally better compression but they are slower than the previous one; "maximum" level offers the best compression ratio and it's the slowest one. These level compress almost every kind of file that can be compressed, but files like GIF, JPG, TAR, GZ, ZIP, ARJ, ZOO are only stored because they are already compressed; if you want to try to compress them further, you must choose the "brutal" compression level.
• Move files: selected files will be deleted from their original position after compression.
• Path: you can choose whether to store the full or relative path info, or to save files without path info. When you will extract these files again, you will get back the original folder structure in the destination folder.
• Include subfolders: use this option when you want to compress a folder and all its subfolders.
• Password: check this option and write a password to protect files being added. Please note: a standard zip password protects files only from extraction but everyone is still able to read the entire file list of an archive. If you need better protection, you may want to encrypt a zip archive in CZIP format.

2) Advanced settings:

• Add hidden and system files: this option allows to compress files which have "Hidden" and/or "System" attributes set.
• Add files with "Archive" attribute: this option allows to compress files which have only the "Archive" attribute set: system and hidden files are excluded.
• Reset "Archive" attribute: this option removes the "Archive" attribute from compressed files.
• Filenames in DOS format (8.3): stores filenames in the old short format used by DOS, so long filenames will be cutted to fit this format. Example: "longfilename.txt" will become "longfi~1.txt". This option today appears useless but it is still present for backward compatibility
• File types: when adding a folder, this box lets you choose which file types should be included in the zip file. By default, a folder is added with the "*.*" pattern, which means "all files", but you can specify only certain file types. Example: if you want to add only .JPG and .BMP files, write *.jpg;*.bmp . When you need to specify multiple file extensions, separe them with a ";" so the program will be able to compile a list of file types to consider.

You can set then HOW TO COMPRESS files:

• Add files: files are just added to the archive; if a file with same filename already is in the archive, that will be replaced.
• Freshen files: this option won't add any new file to the archive, but it will only update already existing files if files being added are their newer version.
• Update files: just as Freshen files, but this option also adds new files to the archive.

When you need to add the entire content of a folder in "EXPERT" mode, you have to click on "Add folder". Options are the same shown for single file compression.

Creating a new archive |  Adding files or folders |  Extracting files | Deleting files |  Renaming an archive | Signing an archive| The "Readme.txt" file | Installing applications | Renaming a file | Previewing a file | Nested Zip Lis | Creating Self-Extracting Archives | Password