Zip files are handy when you need to send someone multiple files or folders. Not only do zip files compress the data, making the files smaller, they combine everything together. This also makes them ...

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Ever download a folder full of files, only to notice all of the documents inside are zipped shut and encrypted—basically the digital version of Fort Knox? These are examples of the ever-wonderful, yet ...

You can unzip a file on a Mac by double-clicking on it, or by right-clicking and selecting "Open." The unzipped file will expand its content into a folder on your ...

Here’s how you can make a zip file archive in Mac OS X. 1. Right-click on the file (s) or folder that you want to zip. 2. On the menu that pops up choose Compress Items. 3. You’ll find the new .zip ...

Zip files are incredibly useful for sharing data over email, cloud storage and on a USB stick. They let you group files together, be they documents, images or audio files. And as zip files typically ...

Whenever I extract files from a zip archive created on a Mac (containing a __MACOSX folder at the root), I get files/folders with green filenames (and encrypted checked in the properties). This only ...