No more zip files gunking up your downloads folder. Just extract and delete all at once
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2026
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Windows needs this the most because the amount of times I've tried to extract an archive just to have it fail because people kept re-zipping the folder into a folder with the same name is infuriating.
They always use the directoryname to include info about the files too so it's some 65 character abomination with a file of the same name inside that breaks the 160 character path limit on Windows lol.
I always just end up using Python or WSL to pull the file out and put it somewhere reasonable.