# Alternate compression format for user post download?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternate-compression-format-for-user-post-download/34517>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [October 14, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternate-compression-format-for-user-post-download/34517 "2015-10-14T19:35:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alternate-compression-format-for-user-post-download/34517/2 "2015-10-14T19:37:14Z")

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I looked at this with @techapj a while ago, and it is surprisingly hard to produce a plain `.zip` file in Unix. So unfortunately, GZip it is for now.

Note that almost all decompression programs (WinZip and the like) can handle GZip files just fine.

There are no plans to include user uploaded images in the self-downloaded user post archive at this time.

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