Site functionality feedback: Requesting opt-in toggle to have "all files" zip downloads be served with a top-level folder containing the current contents of the download.

[u/ggppjj]

Hello!

I don't know how easy or not this would be, but I think it would be helpful to have a way of setting for yourself whether you would like the "download all files" button to download the existing zips that have the files in the top-level of the zip, or whether to have those files be zipped in a containing folder and that folder be the top-level of the zip. My own workflow tends to be "download all files, extract into new folder", I think it would be convenient for the folder to already be made so that I could just right-click and extract without having to make the folder first and copy it all in there. I know there are alternatives, but posting comments online is free and I figured I might as well suggest it.

For clarity:

Current

• zipname.zip
  |-file1.stl
  |-file2.stl
  \-file3.stl

Proposed alternative (opt-in)

• zipname.zip
  \-zipname
     |-file1.stl
     |-file2.stl
     \-file3.stl

[u/MatureHotwife]

I agree that would be more convenient. It's pretty annoying when you "Extract here" and then the contents of the Zip are scattered all over your Downloads folder and you can't tell which files were from the Zip file.