Who has not hit an occasion with a .zip or a .rar? These files are very common in the day-to-day of all those users who use a computer, especially if they connect to the internet. These include what is called compressed file extension.
These are used to indicate many things and appear when the user combines, with some software, different files in a single file . Some files of this type must be decompressed but others allow you to access their content without the need for it.
Does this all sound like something to you? Let’s see, in any case, what is an extension of compressed files , what is it used for, what exist, how are its features and how can we open these groups of files.
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What is the extension of a compression file or file and what is it really for?
A compressed file is one that has been worked to occupy a smaller space than all its parts . That is, it is a set of files that are compressed to occupy a single space and weigh less , so that they are all grouped and easy to move. Thus, an extension of this type of files will be the one that serves to define them as such.
This is part of the nomenclature that is given, in this case, to a set of compressed files so that our system knows that it is precisely a set, that is, that there is that work on them to define them and see what type each is in the set .
That name follows the name you give the tablet and consists of a set of between 1 and 4 letters and / or numbers ; they go behind a point, like the rest of the extensions.
When we see them, we know with what program the compression has been done and, therefore, what can we expect from that file: if it will be decompressed quickly, if it has been transformed, if our compression software is compatible, etc.
These are characteristics are obtained for the file at the moment it is being created , that is, when we are putting all its parts together and compressing them, depending on the program used for this one or other results will be obtained.
Types of compressed file extensions and their associated programs to open them
Among all the existing ones, we want you to know the ones that are most used as well as the ones that have been most important over the past decades.
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Do you know other file compression extensions? Leave them in the comments and we will add them to the list, it will surely be of great value to the other readers!