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How do you open a childproof zipper?

TurkeyMustard — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:14:37 -0800

How do you open a childproof zipper on an Ikea children's mattress cover? We want to take off the cloth mattress cover on my son's Ikea mattress. It has a zipper on one end that appears to be childproof. See photos. But we'll be jiggered if we can figure out how to release it. I've tried pulling it with needle-nose pliers, I've tried twisting, prying, bending, pushing, bumping, jerking, snapping, wrenching, and doing the Mashed Potato. You can see the marks in the photo where my needle-nosed pliers have soiled it a bit. I've tried a paper clip. I've also googled this question to great frustration, with this story about a product from a different company sounding tantalizingly close but still insufficient to solving our problem.

Can you help? How do we release that zipper without simply destroying it?

Unzipping Shell Extension and Vista

flatluigi — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:41:10 -0800

Where can I find an unzipping program for Vista that has a shell extension for Explorer? I got a brand-new computer for graduation and it came with Vista x64. I've always used XP, so it's quite a change.

One of the things that I used to have that isn't working now that I've switched is Tugzip's shell extension. Basically, with it installed, I could right-click on a .rar or .zip or other package in Explorer and have a menu in which I could choose to extract the package in the folder. I've searched and I can't find a way to make it work, so now I'm looking for an alternative.

That said, I ask: Can anyone recommend a free unpackager that supports many different extensions like Tugzip and has such shell extension functionality?

(If anyone has a hack that could make Tugzip work, that might also work.)

unzipping zipper

philcliff — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:55:02 -0800

I have a pair of jeans and the zipper is always coming unzipped. Is there anyway to fix this?

How to go from "this_" to "this" ?

Robot Johnny — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:59:45 -0800

Batch unzipping and file renaming on UNIX or OS X? All_ my_ files_ look_ like_ this!_.gz I recently lost all files on one of my domains, but was able to recover everything from my server's backup. However, all the files now have an underscore appended to the end of the filename (index.html is now index.html_, for example). All the files and all the folders are like this.

And some of them are gzipped, so some files are now filename.cgi_.gz.

What's the quickest, easiest way to unzip everything and remove the _ from the end of the files, including those within nested folders? Is there a shell command I can use? (or a way to do this using Automator on OS X if I copy everything from my server to my computer?)

I'm looking for a good, preferably free, batch unzipping utility.

Ziggy Zaga — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:59:40 -0800

I'm looking for a batch unzipping utility, with two stipulations. 1. The utility must have the ability to extract the contents of each zip archive into an individual folder that retains the name of the archive.
2. The utility would preferably be free.

So "apples.zip," "oranges.zip," "kumquats.zip," and "bananaphones.zip" should become folders "apples," "oranges," "kumquats," and "bananaphones" with the contents of each archive in the respective folder. The utility must ignore any directory structure already within the archives and just create a new structure based on the names of the archives alone.

Google came up with a lot of results but none of them looked like they would do the "extract to individual folders" thing. Heck, I have WinZip, and it will batch unzip files, but unless I'm using it wrong it wants to extract all the files to the same directory, which is not what I want.

Any solutions would be appreciated, thanks.