in this video i'll show you how to zip
and unzip files
on windows pc without using any extra
applications
outside what comes shipped with windows
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let's begin zipping our files
so on the screen i have three files and
these are camtasia recordings
and sometimes camtasia recordings get
really big
and that applies for also other files
pdfs
audio files video files etc one is a way
that you can save space
on your computer or even when you're
sending files to somebody else is by
compressing the files
so what you need to do here is that for
example we'll
try and zip this one file so to zip this
particular file
all you need to do is just click on it
right click
and then click on send to there is
compressed
zip folder and just click on that once
you click on that
the file is going to start being zipped
and you'll see a new file that appears
here
it's the compressed file of that
particular file
that i just displayed to you now it
really takes a short time
to do this depending on your resources
and the size of the file
so the file has already completed we can
call it
a compressed file compressed camtasia
file and you can notice that
the file that was 80 mb is now 49
mb that's a pretty good size
to get once you compress a file but what
if you wanted to compress
these three files what you need to do is
just select all of them
by clicking on the first file and then
holding shift and clicking again
or just dragging by holding the left
click
so that you can highlight all the files
once you do that
then you right click on just one file
navigate to the send to
and click on compressed zipped folder
this process also takes a long or a
short time
and as i mentioned there's a new folder
that has been formed there
that is going to compress our files and
as you can notice
our files are pretty large so we can
just click back here
at the three files about 273 mb
and the process is still continuing but
you can notice that
for files that are 273 and b the output
size that we'll get
at the end you'll notice that it is
smaller than what we have
and this can help you save space and
also
help you reduce on the bandwidth you use
to send the files
to somebody else because when they
extract the files
on their site the files are going to
remain the original size
without any loss of information so the
file is almost done
and as i've mentioned depending on the
resources of your computer it may take a
short or a long time
and also the file sizes that are being
compressed
uh that really influences how long it's
going to take but it is something that
will save you space
so it's completed and it's 193 mb you
also need to rename this
and we can call it three camtasia
files so those are compressed
so we can just delete all these other
files just click on delete
and click on yes and we now have our
zipped files
intact so this is just a sample for one
file
and this is a sample for all the three
files so to extract or unzip the files
you can right click on this particular
file and click on open a new window
now the reason why you can do this is
because when you click on open a new
window
you will see the file that is zipped so
this file is zipped
and if you maximize this you'll notice
that the type is a techsmith recording
compressed it has no password the size
of this file not the compressed file and
the ratio of compression is 39
and the date it was modified we can just
minimize it slightly
now what we need to do is we need to
extract it to this folder
where this file was so you can just
click on it and drag and drop it
into this particular folder and it's
going to extract
in its entirety and the original size
that it was
we had an atmb file and that is what we
have now what we'll do
for this one is that i'll just highlight
both of these files
since the this file is contained in
these three files
and delete once i delete what we'll need
to do is come to
three camtasia zip files i want us to
extract in another way
and we can right click on it and click
on
extract all once i do that we'll get
the option to select a destination and
extract the files
so you can either decide to leave it as
three camtasia files
and this will create a new folder for
the files
to be located in or i can just
remove the three camtasia files
and leave it as uh how to how to zip and
unzip files on windows pc
this particular folder so that they can
come and unzip in this particular
section
now once you do that you can
also browse to a different folder that
you want to extract them to
once you do that you can either decide
to show extracted files when completed
but i will leave that as an unchecked
and then click on extract
now once i do that you'll notice that
the files start coming in
and as i mentioned this is faster than
compressing
extracting is faster than compressing uh
the files
so there we have it the files have been
extracted
or unzipped back where they were so
these are the three files
273 mb this is a zipped three files
193 mb so basically what we've done in
this video
is that we have zipped and unzipped
three files showing you
how it works the size and the space that
you save and we've not opened this file
we can just open
and we can see the ratios of compression
how they look like so
for this big file is 22 percent 39.36
so all in all what i'm trying to say is
that
you'll save space on your computer by
zipping
video recordings audio files images
that are in huge sizes by just
compressing the files
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