Type "7zip" in to the search box (top-left) and press on your keyboard.Select "All applications" from the "View" menu (located at the top).This will bring up Ubuntu's applications manager. From the "Applications" menu, select "Ubuntu Software Center" (it use to be labeled "Add/Remove", before version 9.10).Installing 7-zip in Ubuntu Linux is simple. In short, I don't zip or Rar files anymore I 7zip them! Hopes this helps a future somebody who is checking out PeaZip vs 7Zip.7zip is a free, open source, cross platform, software used to archive and compress files (or hierarchies of files) into a single file or into a series of files with a user-specified size limit.ħzip will unRar rar files (reassemble them and extract their original contents), and 7zip supports file-splitting using its own (nonRar) format.ħzip supports all the major "archive and compression" file-types you'd want to create or view, plus it provides its own lossless compression type (7z) that I've come to prefer. I have since converted all the PeaZip to 7Zip. Fortunately, I could access the originals still from elsewhere.ħZip was ROCK SOLID on every single archive – no surprise issues like this. HOWEVER, two problems run into with PeaZip on the odd archive:ġ) Some required a password (none were used in creating the archive though!!) Ģ) Some just wouldn’t complete an extract – there would be some kind of error. PeaZip lists files and folders independently – no organization (unclear from documentation if this is changable).īoth seem to take the same time to extract the entire archive. PeaZip took forrrrrreeeeevvvvveeeeerrrr to compress on max compression settings (ZPAQ ultra) and would sometimes “hang”.ħZip max compress (LZMA2) was a fraction of the time.īoth used the max number of CPUs I could define – tried to make it as “apples to apples” as possible in the other settings as well (PeaZip documentation was light on this).Ĩ0%+ of the time the 7Zip files were slightly smaller than the PeaZip.ħZip was much “friendlier”, as it displays the files within the directory folder hierarchy they originated in. PeaZip was so poorly documented (and few third party resources / blogs on it) so gave up trying to figure out – just ran manually.
I was “easily” able to set up BAT files for 7Zip to run against either individual files or folders.
I’ve been a long time 7Zip user, but with about 7TB total in files to archive, the kind of difference promised could be up to a further 500GB+ over 7Zip archives.
Many comparisons said that PeaZip was the winner in terms of the amount of space savings, so I thought I’d give it a try. I’ve tried PeaZip and 7Zip, each with > 1TB of files (ranging from 500MB to 50GB). A little off topic, but for anyone like me, who searches through comments in old posts to find related info (as I did in researching alternatives for high compression archives), I am posting this…
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