Supported File Types

ZipGenius supports more than 20 types of archives. Some of them can handle compression and extraction, some can just decompress archives and some others can be used in read mode only.

You will see that some file types require an external tool. This means that ZipGenius can’t handle them straight out-of-the-box and you need to download these tools from other sources.

File TypeExternal Tool Required?ExtractionCompression
ZIP, CZIP, EXE (ZIP SFX)NoYES!YES!
JAR, EAR, WAR (Java Archive)NoYES!YES!
RAR, R**, EXE (RAR SFX), CBRNoYES!NO!
TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, TAZ, TGZNoYES!YES
but can’t update archives
ISO, NRG, CMINoYES!NO!
OpenOffice / LibreOffice Documents (OD*)NoYES!YES!
CABNoYES!YES
but can’t update archives
RPMNoYES!YES
but can’t update archives
DSFZ, BSZ, MSKIN, CBZ, PCVNoYES!YES!
XPI – Firefox ExtensionNoYES!YES!
OpenOffice.org 1.x DocumentsNoYES!YES!
ACE, EXE (ACE SFX)NoYES!NO!
ARJYes!YES!NO!
LZH, LHAYes!YES!YES!
SQX, YZ1, WAL, WMZNoYES!YES!

ZipGenius supports more than 20 types of archives. Some of them can handle compression and extraction, some can just decompress archives and some others can be used in read mode only.

You will see that some file types require an external tool. This means that ZipGenius can’t handle them straight out-of-the-box and you need to download these tools from other sources.

File TypeExternal Tool Required?Extraction / Compression
ZIP, CZIP, EXE (ZIP SFX)NoYES! / YES!
JAR, EAR, WAR (Java Archive)NoYES! / YES!
RAR, R**, EXE (RAR SFX), CBRNoYES! / NO!
TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, TAZ, TGZNoYES! / YES
but can’t update archives
ISO, NRG, CMINoYES! / NO!
OpenOffice / LibreOffice Documents (OD*)NoYES! / YES!
CABNoYES! / YES
but can’t update archives
RPMNoYES! / YES
but can’t update archives
DSFZ, BSZ, MSKIN, CBZ, PCVNoYES! / YES!
XPI – Firefox ExtensionNoYES! / YES!
OpenOffice.org 1.x DocumentsNoYES! / YES!
ACE, EXE (ACE SFX)NoYES! / NO!
ARJYes!YES! / NO!
LZH, LHAYes!YES! / YES!
SQX, YZ1, WAL, WMZNoYES! / YES!

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