The easy way to get what you need (at least using the Windows built-in Zip handler) using Windows conventions is to double-click it to see the contents (the logic is that it's the same as opening a folder - it just happens to be a zipped one), and then drag the internal folder to where you want (or right-click "Copy" | "Paste"), which quietly performs the necessary unzipping.
Paul From: Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> To: Robin Bannister <r...@dabble.ch>, Mark Stephen Mrotek <carsonm...@ca.rr.com>, 'Paul Hodges' <p...@cassland.org> Cc: <lilypond-user@gnu.org> Sent: 09/09/2023 20:07 Subject: Re: 2.22.2 and 2.24.2 Le samedi 09 septembre 2023 à 18:16 +0200, Robin Bannister a écrit : On my win7: - I download the zip for 2.23.80 and put it in folder test_ - Looking in this folder, I can then see test_a.png - When I double-click on the .zip file, I then see test_b.png The config qualifier is dropped from the folder name. When you double-click on the file, you're not extracting the ZIP archive. You're just previewing its contents. This archive contains a single folder called "lilypond-2.23.80". (In my view, the preview, with the potential confusion it creates, is a Windows misfeature. With my GNOME file manager, when I double-click on an archive, it just gets extracted.) When you extract any archive, the system will usually create a folder with all its contents, named like the archive but without the ".zip" extension. In this case, that means you get a "lilypond-2.23.80" folder inside a "lilypond-2.23.80-mingw-x86_64" folder. Some systems / file managers may be smart and skip the outer directory if the archive contains only one file or directory, but that was not the case on the Windows system I used when writing this installation procedure, as you can see from the screenshots. Best, Jean
