Title: correct compression files
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# correct compression files

 *  [arrenato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arrenato/)
 * (@arrenato)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/correct-compression-files/)
 * Congratulations for the excellent work with this plugin. Please, what should 
   be the correct compression for wordpress files tar or zip? I’m currently using
   the zip, but when I decompress the file on the server, it loses the permisões
   correct folders, what should be done? Thank you
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 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Hüsken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielhuesken/)
 * (@danielhuesken)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/correct-compression-files/#post-7667810)
 * Ther is no “correct”. You can try tar it has a better preformance. gz is also
   better than bz.

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