This feature helps in sharing multiple (or individual) files through email. Easy and Secure Data Sharing – Along with Compress and Extract, there is one more option that is commonly found in the context menu of most of these archiving software, and that Compress and Email.
Or, check the installer version of an ISO by extracting only the setup executable file, etc. For example, you can extract a directory used to store wallpapers in a Linux distro ISO.
Then you can just use your archive manager to open that archive, and then extract those specific files or folders. Extracting Specific Content – Sometimes you may need only a few files from a big archive.Browse Contents of Archives – Feature-rich archive managers include their own file managers, which you can use to browse the archive (ZIP, RAR, 7Z, etc.) without needing to extract them.That’s not really helpful nowadays as most of the popular file formats are already in the compressed formats. Save Disk Space – The original purpose was compressing was saving some disc space.but if you want to secure a few audio, video or image files, then archiving software are a great help.
Some files support password protection such as Word files, PDF files, etc.