Zipper v1.0.0

🚀 Zipper v1.0.0 — Initial Public Release

Release Date: 31 Dec 2025
Status: Stable (First Public Release)

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✨ Overview

• Zipper is a multi-threaded desktop utility built with Python to compress multiple folders efficiently through a simple GUI.
• This release focuses on performance, clarity, and usability, making bulk folder compression fast and intuitive.

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🔑 Key Features

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📁 Folder-based compression

Select a root folder and automatically zip its subfolders

Preserves directory structure

⚡ Multi-threaded execution

• Configurable thread count (1–128)
• Optimized for faster parallel compression

📊 Real-time progress tracking

• Individual progress bars per active thread
• Displays the folder currently being processed
• Automatically hides progress bars when tasks complete

🧾 Detailed logging

• Logs each zip file created
• Captures time taken per folder
• Scrollable log view with clear option

🖥️ Simple GUI

• Maximized window on launch
• Consistent typography across UI elements
• Enlarged folder input field for better usability
• Custom application icon for GUI and Windows executable

📦 Standalone Windows executable

• Packaged using PyInstaller
• No Python installation required to run

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🛠️ Technical Highlights

• Built with Python + Tkinter
• Thread-safe worker architecture
• Clean modular project structure
• Icon embedding for both GUI window and .exe
• Designed for scalability and future enhancements

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📥 Installation & Usage

1. Download the Windows executable from Assets
2. Launch Zipper.exe
3. Select input folder
4. (Optional) Select output folder
5. Choose thread count
6. Start compression 🚀

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🧪 Known Limitations (v1.0.0)

• Windows-only executable
• No pause/resume support (yet)
• No compression level configuration

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🗺️ Roadmap

• ⏸ Pause / Resume compression
• 📈 Estimated time remaining (ETA)
• 🎛 Compression level controls
• 🐧 Linux & macOS support
• 📤 Export logs to file

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🙌 Acknowledgements

• Built and maintained by Chetan Maikhuri
• Designed for general users, developers, and productivity enthusiasts.