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Rainy wrote:
> I have never heard of a zip that comes in parts like a rar does..
> I'm up for learning anytime.. and in this particular zip was one
> file, a graphic.. one image! You are right, I was talking about a
> cam zip utitlity.. had 7zip on my mind.. lol thanks for all the
> information.. had trouble with the 7zip and file association.. I
> had so many unzip utilities on my computer, I had to uninstall the
> ones I wasn't going to use... then went to folder options to make
> sure zips were associated with 7zip. It wasn't! . Thanks for wading
> through my explanation.. I appreciate the input and all the new
> information.. and No I didn't know this.. I have had a computer for
> 10 years or more and have never seen a zip that depends on other
> parts of the zip like a rar does.. Is that what you mean by
> Multipart? hugs rainy

Multi-Part Archives are fairly common.

RAR (.RAR or .Part01.rar, Part02.rar, etc or .r01, r02, r03, etc.)
ZIP (.ZIP + .z01, z02, z03, etc or Part1.zip, Part2.zip, etc)

Essentially - it's taken a file/set of files&folders and split it into
several smaller files as it compresses them. You need all the pieces of the
puzzle (all the files in the series) to extract everything successfully.

There's even applications that just split a large file into several smaller
ones (no compression to speak of):

HJSplit (.001 + .002 + .003, etc)

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