Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Unzipping a Filemail

Here are just a two options of what to do with a zipped filemail on a Windows7 laptop

(1) Open the zipped folder and Play the video while it is still in your download folder
I download the zip files using Chrome.
After the download is completed, I click on the options menu to the right of the downloaded file on the bottom of the Chrome screen and choose to *Open* the zip file by double clicking on Open
then double click any of the video files to Play.
You can also access the zipped folder by looking in your download folder or whatever folder is designated for downloads and if worse comes to worse using the Windows Start menu search for *filemail* to find the zipped folder from filemail.


(this is what I prefer to do)
(2) Move the zipped folder to where you want the videos located on your device before extracting the files there.
After the download is completed, I click on the options menu to the right of the downloaded file on the bottom of the Chrome screen and choose *show in folder* (if you do not have this option check your download folder or whatever folder you had designated for downloads from your browser)
and  right click mouse on the zipped folder and choose to *cut* the whole zipped folder then paste it in another location, usually a video folder in the library or a newly created folder. 
(create a new folder by right clicking in the library video folder you want it to be and choosing *new* then *folder* then right click the new folder and choose paste. You can rename this folder with a right click whenever you want).
After the zipped folder is pasted where I want it, I right click on the zipped  folder and choose *extract all*   One by one the videos start getting extracted in the designated folder where I wanted them much quicker than when I try to move and extract each file one at a time.
I eventually delete the zip folder because I do not need it anymore with its contents already extracted.

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