Feature: Improve support for compressing and decompressing archives

[yaira2]

• Feature: Menu option to add selected items to archive #9947
• Keep timestamps from the .zip file
• Extract files
• Menu options to extract items quickly without the use of the dialog
• Feature: Show modal when extracting password protected archives #9948
• When pasting a file into an archive the file is fully currently loaded into memory first (bad)
• "Extract" command on toolbar when an archive is selected or being browsed Show an Extract all button when selecting a .zip file #7639
• 7zip & other formats support (requires switching to SharpCompress or something)
• Specific icon to show when zip files are associated with Files?
• Add shell extensions to File Explorer
• Add dedicated progress view when using shell extensions in File Explorer
• Feature: Add support for extracting multiple archives at the same time #9949
• 7z
• gz
• tar
• rar
• zip
• lzma
• lzh
• arj
• bz2
• cab
• chm
• deb
• iso (known to have issues with files displaying)
• rpm
• wim
• udf
• mub
• xar
• hfs
• dmg
• Z
• xz
• flv
• swf
• exe
• dll
• vhd
• msix
• appx

[yaira2]

This might be useful https://github.com/adamhathcock/sharpcompress.

[szaimen]

Maybe also looking inside zip files and opening files from there should be supported?
(it is working like that currently in the file explorer)

BTW: extracting should imo always result in creating a folder with the same name like the zip file inside the directory and putting the content into this newly created folder.
(file explorer is doing this as well)

[ChihweiLHBird]

Maybe we can use https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.compression.zipfile?view=netcore-3.1 ?

[chuchanpr]

This is a recommend to be added to Files UWP, when possible

[JaiganeshKumaran]

@ChihweiLHBird Using System.IO will make it slower because UWP apps have limited access and you need to use StorageItems to get them. Instead we can use the native API: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.Storage.Compression?view=winrt-19041

[lukeblevins]

@JaiganeshKumaran Does the native API support folder items? In my analysis, it appears support for that is lacking, but I'm still unsure.

[d2dyno1]

Not working on all of the issues but can work on some of them.

[wise-gorilla]

I think it would be great if it was possible to integrate those libraries instead of 7zip
https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd
https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip

[Josh65-2201]

Could support be added for .mcpack. its just a zip file renamed for Minecraft's use

[Josh65-2201]

GitHub doesn't support uploading it but you can just change the .zip to .mcpack
zResourcePackBedrock.zip

[Josh65-2201]

.jar file could also have viewing/extracting support they use zip for it compresion.