BoltZ Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 How do I add a zip file to my website so other people can download the files in it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 You upload it within document root and give people a link to the file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 2, 2008 Author Share Posted November 2, 2008 What do u mean document root. You mean in my public_html directory? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R4nk3d Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 2, 2008 Author Share Posted November 2, 2008 but I dont know how to take the files on my computer and change them to a zip format Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 If your are using Windows just select which ever files you want to be zipped and then right click on the selection and choose Send To > Compressed Zipped Archive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 2, 2008 Author Share Posted November 2, 2008 Oh so thats how. Thanks  Learn something new every day @.o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynewex Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 lol Just rename a text file as .zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 3, 2008 Author Share Posted November 3, 2008 Its not a text file. Its a folder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 lol Just rename a text file as .zip  renaming a file != compressing data. Thanks for playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 3, 2008 Author Share Posted November 3, 2008 Ha. Epic fail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamez Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 WinRaR! Â www.rarlabs.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 3, 2008 Author Share Posted November 3, 2008 Well Uh this thread has been going on way past the answer. I got the answer back at right click > send to compressed folder and tried to signal that by saying Oh so thats how, thanks.... Â Thanks anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 There are loads of way to compress it and you can compress it at different levels. Higher compression means smaller size but more overhead when compressing and extracting. Lower compression is the opposite obviously. The Windows right-click thing doesn't give you many options but a full-fledged archiving program (my favorite is 7-Zip which supports many formats and is open source) does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamez Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 I was watching a video on YouTube about the LHC, and she was presenting it to the peeps at google, and someone asked what are they using to compress the data that is rendered from the machine, and she said 7-zip, because they found out that is has a better compression rate than the other choices. Then she told him, if he knew\invented anything better to let her know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltZ Posted November 3, 2008 Author Share Posted November 3, 2008 Ok well thanks. I know how to compress my beta forums now. Which I just posted a thread in beta testing if anyone wants to try them out!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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