If a .zip file contains all of the information of the original, just in less space, why does it have to be unzipped to access any of it?
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Speed of access is really the whole of it. Zipping files just trades off the time it takes to compress or decompress them for the space they take in storage, and you can’t access any particular part of the data without decompressing the entire file.
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