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add password to existing zip file with 7zip

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Mar 15, 202690518 views

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Is it possible to add a password to an existing zipfile with 7zip without going to all the trouble of unpacking it and re-packing it again?

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By nature if you want the file to be encrypted, it needs to be unpacked and repacked, since the whole archive needs to be encrypted with the password.

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add password to existing zip file with 7zip

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