: The native .7z format uses the advanced LZMA and LZMA2 algorithms, which can achieve compression ratios up to 30–70% better than standard ZIP files.
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: Archiving files with 7-Zip is 100% lossless. When you extract a file, it is bit-for-bit identical to the original. : The native
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