# Trouble Unzipping Files

**URL:** <https://forum.ipums.org/t/trouble-unzipping-files/6775>\
**Category:** USA\
**Created:** [October 1, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/trouble-unzipping-files/6775 "2025-10-01T15:45:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Kelsey\_Carlston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/258eb7/32.png) [@Kelsey\_Carlston](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Kelsey_Carlston)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/trouble-unzipping-files/6775/1 "2025-10-01T15:45:13Z")

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I recently updated to Windows 11, and now unzipping IPUMS files is not working like it used to. I am using 7Zip, and instead of unzipping one file, it is creating a different empty file for each row that has the contents of the row as a title. (That’s millions of little files.) Is anybody else having this problem?

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**Author:** ![Kelsey\_Carlston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/258eb7/32.png) [@Kelsey\_Carlston](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Kelsey_Carlston)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/trouble-unzipping-files/6775/2 "2025-10-01T15:46:42Z")

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Nevermind, I figured it out. If you right click ,the extraction options are not 7Zip, and you have to click “Show More Options” to get the old extraction options.

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**Author:** ![KariWilliams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@KariWilliams](https://forum.ipums.org/u/KariWilliams)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/trouble-unzipping-files/6775/3 "2025-10-03T18:01:48Z")

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Glad you got it taken care of. Thanks for your message. Something about Windows 11 seems to have caused occasional issues with decompressing .gz files with the built-in decompression tool AND I have also been caught by the change in finding 7zip.