Supported formats
| Format | Creation | Filename Extensions |
|---|---|---|
| 7z | X | 7z |
| BZIP2 | X | bz2 bzip2 tbz2 tbz |
| GZIP | X | gz gzip tgz |
| TAR | X | tar |
| WIM | X | wim swm |
| XZ | X | xz txz |
| ZIP | X | zip zipx jar xpi odt ods docx xlsx epub |
| APM | apm | |
| AR | ar a deb lib | |
| ARJ | arj | |
| CAB | cab | |
| CHM | chm chw chi chq | |
| COMPOUND | msi msp doc xls ppt | |
| CPIO | cpio | |
| CramFS | cramfs | |
| DMG | dmg | |
| Ext | ext ext2 ext3 ext4 img | |
| FAT | fat img | |
| HFS | hfs hfsx | |
| HXS | hxs hxi hxr hxq hxw lit | |
| iHEX | ihex | |
| ISO | iso img | |
| LZH | lzh lha | |
| LZMA | lzma | |
| MBR | mbr | |
| MsLZ | mslz | |
| Mub | mub | |
| NSIS | nsis | |
| NTFS | ntfs img | |
| MBR | mbr | |
| RAR | rar r00 | |
| RPM | rpm | |
| PPMD | ppmd | |
| QCOW2 | qcow qcow2 qcow2c | |
| SPLIT | 001 002 ... | |
| SquashFS | squashfs | |
| UDF | udf iso img | |
| UEFIc | scap | |
| UEFIs | uefif | |
| VDI | vdi | |
| VHD | vhd | |
| VMDK | vmdk | |
| WIM | wim esd | |
| XAR | xar pkg | |
| Z | z taz |
ZIP
7-Zip creates ZIP compatible archives. 7-Zip supports the following ZIP compression methods:
- 0 - Store
- 1 - Shrink (decompression only)
- 6 - Implode (decompression only)
- 8 - Deflate
- 9 - Deflate64
- 12 - BZip2
- 14 - LZMA
- 95 - xz (decompression only)
- 98 - PPMd
- 99 - WinZip AES
Files compressed with other ZIP compression methods can't be extracted by the current version of the 7-Zip. But these supported methods are the most popular today, and therefore 7-Zip can decompress most ZIP archives. To extract files compressed with non-supported methods you must use some other ZIP utility.
7-Zip supports the Zip64 extension of ZIP format.
The current version of 7-Zip doesn't support Zip multivolume archives.
LZH
7-Zip supports LZH archives only for listing, browsing and decompressing. 7-Zip supports -lh0-, -lh4-, -lh5-, -lh6- and -lh7- methods.