Timeline for Can zipping a file break it?
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| Mar 23, 2012 at 22:04 | comment | added | slartibartfast | In some cases zipping a file can cause it to be different when unzipped. For instance, zipping an Ubuntu ISO of Wubi can cause it to become corrupted. | |
| May 15, 2011 at 13:54 | comment | added | Django Reinhardt | -1 In theory this is true, but in practice there are issues with Mac fonts being unzipped on a PC as 0 bytes. This is due to a resource fork being created. Try it for yourself and see. | |
| May 15, 2011 at 11:25 | comment | added | jokoon | ... well I don't know how the duffie hellman algorithm works anyway... | |
| May 14, 2011 at 20:51 | comment | added | mbx | @jokoon: then those files would be corrupted, which he excludes explicitly | |
| May 14, 2011 at 17:23 | comment | added | jokoon | You should not say no this quickly, there are a lot of zipping/unzipping file implementations out there, counting all existing OSes and other stuff which can make zip files, I would not be surprised that some implementations just don't care of some others. | |
| May 13, 2011 at 22:00 | vote | accept | alex | ||
| May 13, 2011 at 4:25 | comment | added | BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft | In addition, some zip formats support redundancy, meaning storing as a zip can actually be safer than storing the plain file. | |
| May 13, 2011 at 2:41 | comment | added | alex | That is what I suspected. Thanks for your answer. | |
| May 13, 2011 at 2:38 | history | answered | Mike Fitzpatrick | CC BY-SA 3.0 |