To add files to an archive simply click the "Add"
button on the toolbar or from the menu. You can also add files from
the "Create archive" window.
File selection |
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Please select the files and/or folders that you want to add to your
archive in this explorer view. Click on an item to select it. |
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| Name |
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In this field you should specify a name of the archive that you
want to create. The file extension is not important in this step,
it will be set later. You can click the browse button to select a
file name of your choice. You may also enter a file name on your own
directly in the field. |
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| Format |
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Please select what kind of format you want to compress your file
into. The file extension will be changed automatically when you change
the archive format. Knowing what format to use may be difficult to
know for new users. For best compatibility use the ZIP format. Almost
every archiving tool out there supports the ZIP format. SQX and 7-ZIP
(7Z) are two formats which provide very good compression and they
both have better compression ratio than ZIP. |
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| Create a self-extracting archive |
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If you want to create a SelF-eXtracting archive you may check this
option. A self-extracting archive is an archive which doesn't need
an archiving tool such as TUGZip to extract its contents. It has
decompression routines built-in and can therefore extract itself. This
is good if you want to transfer your compressed files to a computer
which does not have any archiving utility installed. Note that you
can create SFX archives of existing non-SFX archives, simply use TUGZip
Self-Extractor. |
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| Recursive file scan |
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This option enables recursive file scanning. For example, you
have a directory structure which looks like this and you have selected
the C:\Projects directory in the file selection window:
C:\Projects\Project1
C:\Projects\Project2
C:\Projects\Images
You want to add all the contents of C:\Projects to an archive.
Then you must check the recursive file scan option or else only
the files listed in the C:\Projects directory will be added.
When checking the recursive file scan option you allow TUGZip to
add C:\Project and all subdirectories. |
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| Save folder names |
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Check this option if you want to store the folder names in the archive.
If not the files will be added to the archive root directory and you
will not be able to extract the archive contents using the same directory
structure as it may have in an archived state. |
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| Include hidden files |
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This option let you define whether you want to include hidden files
in your archive. |
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| DOS names |
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If this option is set, all the files added to the archive will
use DOS names. If you are not familiar with DOS names this is probably
nothing you want to do. |
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| Compression level |
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In this combo box you may specify what compression level you want
to use. On the most common formats this option let you select between
options like: None, Normal, Maximum, etc. But some formats such as 7-Zip,
LZH and CAB let you specify what algorithm to use. Maximum gives the
best compression ratio but is slower than normal. Select a compression
level of your choice. |
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| Dictionary size |
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This is mainly for expert users. It let you set the dictionary size
of the archive. Changing this option will give better compression
ratio in some cases. Using the default dictionary size of 4096kB is
the best in most cases. |
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| Recovery data |
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Adding recovery data to your archive will increase the chances of
repairing it if it becomes corrupt. It will also increase the
archive size. You may add recovery data to your archive if you for
example are archiving very important data and transferring it to another
computer using an unstable transfer media such as old floppy disks. |
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| Multimedia compression |
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When this option is set a special algorithm will be used when compressing
multimedia files which will compress them in a more efficient way. |
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| EXE compression |
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When this option is set a special algorithm will be used when compressing
.exe files which will compress them in a more efficient way. |
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| Create solid archive |
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When creating a solid archive all data added to the archive is depending
on the earlier data added. This will in most cases result in smaller
archives. There is a one negative thing extracting solid archives
though. If you want to extract only a few selected files from a solid
archive, all files in the archive have to be temporary extracted because
all files are dependent on each other. |
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| Encryption |
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This option allows you to encrypt the contents of the archive. You
will not be able to extract the contents of the archive if the correct
password isn't supplied. |
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| Encrypt file names |
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When viewing encrypted archives the file names are still visible.
When this option is set you will prevent this. The user is not able
to see any file names in the archive. |
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| Advanced span naming & spanning mode |
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If the advanced span naming option is set to true and the span
mode is set to Spanning, the archive volumes will be named like
this: MyArchive_001.zip, MyArchive_002.zip & MyArchive_003.zip.
If advanced span naming is deactivated and the span mode is set
to Spanning, the archive volumes will be named: MyArchive.zip on
all disks. If advanced span naming is deactivated and the span mode
is set to Splitting, the archive volumes will be named like this:
MyArchive.zip, MyArchive.z01 & MyArchive.z02. |
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| Span size |
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This field allows you to specify the size of each volume in the
disk set. Set this option to Custom if you want to specify your own
volume size in the field to the left. |