Zip Files... Help

After a glitch wiped my save and a load of work from CoC, I decided to use a Save Editor to at least be able to get my transformations back.
 
unfortunately the base editor doesn’t cover any of it, and the other one is in ZIP format… which I have no clue how to use.
 
can somepony help me out?

Do you just need to extract the files? If so just download and install 7zip.

I know that much, and fairly sure I has a zip reader already.
 
its more of… then what?
 
ive come across ZIP stuff before and the normal file is… unfindable.

well once you extract it (or view it in the 7zip application) it should show you the contents of the file. For a lot of games and executables there’s a readme text file for what exactly you need to do, somewhere in there. If not, then it’s a specific case of whatever software it is you’re downloading :P

ah. ok so just dig though till I finds the right one… got it.

@Background Pony  
What ZIP reader are you using?

uhh… dunno  
whatever’s standard on win8.

@Background Pony  
I actually don’t think windows comes with a ZIP reader, granted I’m using 7 and don’t use any of the standard programs anyways.
 
Actually I just checked and apperantly you don’t need a special program on Win 8. The instructions on what you’re looking for are here.

….  
‘open the compressed folder and then drag the files or folders you want to extract to a new location’ …
 
I don’t wanna move stuff I just wanna be able to use the darn thing!

@Background Pony  
I’m familiar with the program you’re trying to use, and according to the instructions you do have to move the contents of the .zip to another folder.
 
link
 
After that you should be able to just use it like any other program.

ah ok, thanks!
 
Ihm gonna give mahself reindeer horns, and dragon wings!
 
and a butt the size of Canada!

@Shadow Star  
Live the dream buddy!

ok while ive managed to get the thing to work…  
I has no idea how to use the more important parts of it.  
the ‘raw data’ section… which has all the events, meetings, and such on it.
 
anyone got any info or a guide or something on how to use it?  
(the rest of it is easy enough to understand just need help with the ‘raw data’ section’

@Shadow Star  
My general advice would be to make a separate save for experimenting with the raw data editing. Mostly it just lets you manipulate various statuses and event flags.
 
Anything specific you’re looking to do?

ah that’s just it I dunno how to set the flags and such, it just says ‘score’  
does it work in binary, or some other calculatory method?  
that’s one part, and the other would be an explanation for what some of them actually do.

@Shadow Star  
I’m looking at it now and it looks like it varies. Some stuff is just a simple yes/no and there just changing the zero to a one should work, but entries like URTA - Times Fucked you could probably enter any number you want.
 
Again I’d advise just experimenting with the values on a save set aside particularly for dicking about with this stuff, but then messing with Dwarf Fortress RAWs makes me inexplicably happy so you probably shouldn’t take my advice.
 
Check this thread about the editor of Fenoxo’s forums, they might be able to tell you more.

ah ok so most of its binary, and some have a regular numerical value.  
I’ll look @ thread later.

so… did you accidentally the WHOLE thing?

what?