Browsing/Viewing images in a ZIP file 1

[StuckInTheMiddle]

Hi All,

Not quite sure if this is the correct forum but this is an Windows XP question.

I am a amateur photographer who actually backs up his work quite often.

I have a lot of images that i zip up to CD-ROM. Does anyone know of any software (preferably freeware) that allows you browse/view images in the zip file directly without having to decompress them first.

XP does a great job of showing me the contents of the ZIP file but i have to extract my files to view them. Most are in high res JPG format.

Any advice appreciated

A,


"If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos...then you probably haven't completely understood the seriousness of the situation.

 

[StuckInTheMiddle]

Silly me, latest version of winzip (version 11) has a built in viewer. It's shareware, but may have to fork out as this is what i need.

If anyone knows of a freeware image viewer that can browse zip files I would still be interested in that.

A,

"If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos...then you probably haven't completely understood the seriousness of the situation.

 

[linney]

As .jpg's are already in a Compressed format, are you really gaining much by zipping them too?

JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group

http://www.scantips.com/basics9j.html

 

[BeyondTheBlue]

ACDSee also has the ability to browse and view thumbnails inside Zip files.

 

[Diancecht]

I can see pictures on a zip file just browsing the zip as a folder and double-clicking them with my Windows XP.

Not sure if that's what you want.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[StuckInTheMiddle]

Hi linney,

My images are zipped up because I was having problems creating a CD with 10000+ images in various folders. I zip them up with no compression so its not really to save space but to guarantee trouble free burning.

Hi BeyondTheBlue,

I will be sure to check out ACDSee from their web site it sounds like it's a good tool to have in my software library anyway.

Hi Diancecht,

I really wanted something that would allow be to browse through all my zip files, with a thumbnail, and not just double click a file which XP does. I often need to find just one or two images from my 10000+ in my zips and dont always know the file name.

A,

"If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos...then you probably haven't completely understood the seriousness of the situation.