Extracting (copying) files to another folder – T-Mobile MDA III User Manual

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list the files in the

Individual File

screen.

New Archive...

lets you create a new empty file with a filename extension of .zip. You can then

select

Open Archive

on the File Menu to open it in the Individual File screen, then use the

Add

command on the Action Menu or Toolbar (in the Individual File screen) to compress and add

individual files to it.

ZIP

automatically compresses the files before adding them. The default com-

pression level is a compromise between speed and ratio of compression. This can be changed in

the

Tools Menu > Options > Action

tab. If you wish to select multiple files, you can use

Action

Menu > Multi-Select Mode

.

Select

Archive Properties...

to view information about the current archive file.

If the Individual File screen is currently displayed and you want to switch back to the Archive File

screen, select

Find Archive

on the File Menu or on the Toolbar.

Extracting (copying) files to another folder

The

Extract

command copies the selected file or files in the current open archive, then moves the

copy to the folder of your choice. Select the desired file(s), then tap

Extract

. The

Extract

screen

will open. Tap the

Selected Files

button to copy and move only the selected files, or tap

All Files

to copy and move all files in the folder (regardless of whether specific files were selected prior

to tapping Extract...). If you wish to automatically overwrite any existing files that might have the

same name in the destination folder (without being prompted), check the

Overwrite Existing

Files

checkbox. If you do not check this checkbox, and files are found in the destination folder

with the same name, you will be asked to confirm. If the

Apply Path

checkbox is not checked,

the extracted files will be copied to the current folder. If the

Apply Path

checkbox is checked, ZIP

will create a new subfolder in which to place the extracted files. Tap the

Extract

button.

The

Integrity Test

command is used in

ZIP

to check and see if the data in all of the individual

files currently listed in the display area are correct. To obtain data reliability,

ZIP

uses a common

but powerful technique for error detection known as CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check). The CRC

value, obtained by algorithm, is listed when you use Details view (if the

CRC

checkbox is checked

in the

View

tab of

Options

). It doesn’t matter if there are any individual files currently selected

or not. When you tap

Integrity Test

, all files contained in the current archive will automatically

be tested for data correctness and reliability. A message will then appear and tell you whether

the file data is correct.
When the contents of an archive file is listed and it contains one or more subfolders, you can use

Show Folders on the View Menu to display the subfolder(s) as open or closed. When Show

Folders is active, only the subfolder name (and subfolder icon) will be shown in the file listing.

When

Show Folders is not active, the subfolder name will not be shown in the file listing. In-

stead, the individual files within that subfolder will be listed along with any other files that might

be contained in the archive.

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