Go to File Explorer and select the file/folder you want to zip. Right-click and under the ‘Send to’ option, choose ‘Compressed (zipped) folder’ option. You will be prompted to enter the.
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So as you see to zip file Mac users don’t need a lot of time. By default, it has the name Archive.zip, but you can easily rename it with just a couple of clicks: navigate to the Archive.zip, right-click the mouse and select 'Rename'. How to open a ZIP file on Mac or MacBook. How to unpack zip files is similar to how to create a ZIP file.
Every recent Windows or Mac operating system is capable of working with.zip files without the help of any 3rd-party applications. Working with.zip files on Windows and macOS is nearly the same. The only major difference is the location of where your extracted files appear.
A zip file is a compressed file. Files often are zipped in order to make them smaller---to save space on a hard drive and make it possible to them with email. Once you zip a file, the file takes on a .zip file extension and the file icon appears as a zipped up folder. Files may be zipped using a commercial zip utility, but both Mac OS and Windows have built-in utilities allowing you to zip and unzip files. On a Mac, the built-in 'Archive Utility' will form a zipped file out of several files, making it possible to send a collection of files in one zipped folder. The utility will also automatically extract a zipped file.
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Browse through your computer files to locate a .zip file you need to extract. If the file is attached to an email, open the email.
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Double-click the zip file on your hard drive, or click 'Download' to open the file from an email.
Select 'Open with Archive Utility' and click 'OK' if prompted. Either way, the utility will open and decompress the zipped files. The files are placed in the same folder as the zip file. If the zip folder has multiple files, the utility will create a new folder containing all the decompressed files.
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