# Opening Vmod to edit out old files

**URL:** <https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/opening-vmod-to-edit-out-old-files/72812>\
**Category:** Technical Support & Bugs\
**Created:** [October 20, 2021, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/opening-vmod-to-edit-out-old-files/72812 "2021-10-20T01:03:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![markhans](https://forum.vassalengine.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@markhans](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/markhans)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/opening-vmod-to-edit-out-old-files/72812/1 "2021-10-20T01:03:53Z")

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How do I get old files out of a module. I have done it with winzip in the past, but I can’t remember how.

I get the vmod unzipped, but the inside files do not show.

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**Author:** ![uckelman](https://forum.vassalengine.org/user_avatar/forum.vassalengine.org/uckelman/32/10020_2.png) [@uckelman](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/uckelman)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/opening-vmod-to-edit-out-old-files/72812/2 "2021-10-20T10:15:21Z")

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What do you mean by “I get the vmod unzipped”? How are you doing it? What do you see when you do that?

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**Author:** ![markhans](https://forum.vassalengine.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@markhans](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/markhans)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/opening-vmod-to-edit-out-old-files/72812/3 "2021-10-20T14:08:44Z")

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I use winzip. This brings the file to the middle of the page. From there I can’t get into the inner contents. When I click on it it just offers me a place to save the file…

Thanks for helping–

Mark

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**Author:** ![uckelman](https://forum.vassalengine.org/user_avatar/forum.vassalengine.org/uckelman/32/10020_2.png) [@uckelman](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/uckelman)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/opening-vmod-to-edit-out-old-files/72812/4 "2021-10-20T15:03:40Z")

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That’s because you’re browsing the contents of the archive in winzip. When you’re doing that, it’s offering to extract individual files for you. What you want instead is to extract the entire archive. There should be an option for that if you look around, as that’s the primary purpose of programs like WinZip.

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**Author:** ![markhans](https://forum.vassalengine.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@markhans](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/markhans)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/opening-vmod-to-edit-out-old-files/72812/5 "2021-10-20T16:16:46Z")

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I’ll work on it thanks