I installed the recommended ZipGenius based on threads in this newsgroup. I
have version 6.0.2.1060 and was 'learning it' when I found it has major
bugs.

I zipped 3 small txt files. Changed #1 and #2. Did a few drag and drops of
my txt files onto the zip file (there is a quick progress bar as something
happens) to find I sometimes end up with files #1, #1 and #2. Why dups and
what happened to #3?

Doesn't ANYTHING work right?  I can't use this. 
Is it just me or is ZipGenius pretty buggy?

What zip freeware is robust and recommended by users?

TIA,
Amanda W.

Amanda Williams wrote:
> I installed the recommended ZipGenius based on threads in this newsgroup. I
> have version 6.0.2.1060 and was 'learning it' when I found it has major
> bugs.
>
> I zipped 3 small txt files. Changed #1 and #2. Did a few drag and drops of
> my txt files onto the zip file (there is a quick progress bar as something
> happens) to find I sometimes end up with files #1, #1 and #2. Why dups and
> what happened to #3?
>
> Doesn't ANYTHING work right?  I can't use this.
> Is it just me or is ZipGenius pretty buggy?
>
> What zip freeware is robust and recommended by users?
>
> TIA,
> Amanda W.

Try 7zip.  It produces zip files in addition to its own formats with
better compression.  It has a GUI but can also be run from the command
line.  It is free and open source.
Some benchmarks: http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/text.html#1850

-- Matt Mahoney