(Windows XP Pro)
When I create ZIP files using Windows native capabilities (usually in Windows Explorer by right-clicking and “Send To, Compressed (zipped) folder”, sometimes the ZIP files are treated in Windows Explorer as folders, and sometimes as files. That is, in the left pane when I click + to expand a folder, I will see ZIP files undereath it as though they were folders (with a zipper icon). But in other cases, they show up only in the right pane with the other files.
Any ideas how to make it always treat every zip file as a folder?
Windows preserves the file structure. So lets say I zip up a file: stuff.exe. I will not see a folder for it. If I zip up a folder named “stuff” with a file called stuff.exe in it and zip that folder I will then see a folder when I unzip it. This is typical of all zip implementations.
But this is not after I unzip it, this is how it looks zipped. See screenshots. All zip files were created by selecting multiple files and then right-clicking to “Send to” as described in OP.
Treated as folders
Treated as files
A hunch: Maybe this is a bug (or “feature”) related to the existence or nonexistence of actual directories in the working directory? Try creating a directory in College.gov and see if your zip archives magically appear in the left pane.
