Compress & delete original file

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Compress & delete original file

Forum: Open Discussion

Creator: Meir BENHAMOU

Created: 2009-03-25

Updated: 2016-07-30

Meir BENHAMOU - 2009-03-25

How to compress and delete the original file at the end of compression with the 7-zip utility ?
Thank you
Meir

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tsimons.dti - 2015-04-10

I too would like to see this.

One major reason why people in my organization do not adopt 7zip is because it lacks this functionality.

GZIP has it natively

ZIP has it as "-m"

Thanks!!
~Todd

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- gora2 - 2015-04-10
  
  -sdel (Delete files after compression) switch
  
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Simon Bridger - 2015-07-01

what version has -sdel ?

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Ronald Sorensen - 2016-07-29

With 7zip, I compressed a folder with many MBs of files and used the check box to delete after compression...The files were on a USB flash drive. The compressed file that was put on the C: drive turned out fine...but the flash drive is no longer recognized by Windows 8.1 --and apparently can't be fixed.

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Igor Pavlov - 2016-07-30

There is some delay when windows actually writes data to external drive.
So it's not safe to remove drive just after operation finish.

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