by osiris2258 (Posted Sat Feb 18, 2017 2:41 am)
If an archive is equivalent in the software to a folder, as it is in ACDSee, then there is not need to extract it. And extracting it turns a single file into a folder that then needs recursive operations to handle, so if anything the archive is more convenient as storage on the face of it.
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obelisk wrote:As invisifan said tarballs are legit ways to store groups. Zip and rar are legit ways to DISTRIBUTE groups of files, it is NOT best practice to STORE them as Zip and rar. As with everything, there will be someone with some reason to do it, but do you want to be the jack of all trades bloatware?
It's like when I move house I put things into boxes, but I don't KEEP them in boxes forever.
If an archive is equivalent in the software to a folder, as it is in ACDSee, then there is not need to extract it. And extracting it turns a single file into a folder that then needs recursive operations to handle, so if anything the archive is more convenient as storage on the face of it.
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