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A type of file compression used to save space for storage or transfer. Very common due to built in support in both the Mac OS and Windows OS.

Zip is a widely used file format for compression and archiving. It is natively supported across all major operating systems with built-in tools available for compressing/archiving and decompressing/unarchiving.

ZIP files generally use the file extensions .zip or .ZIP and the MIME media type application/zip.

The format is available in public domain. Apple has included built-in ZIP support in Mac OS X 10.3 (via BOMArchiveHelper, now Archive Utility) and later.

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How can I compress a folder into multiple zip files?

I'm on mac osx. 1. Is there any tool to compress a folder into multiple zip files ? 2. Is there any tool to split a compressed zip file into smaller zip files (to open individually later)?
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Open Self Extracting .exe

I have a self extracting exe file that is password protected, does anybody know of a program that will open this? If I need to I can just run bootcamp, but it would be convenient to not have to do this.
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extracting multiple zips/rar into same folder

maybe I am stupid, but I just cant figure out how to extract multiple zips into the same folder easy. I always end up with folders of the zip name that then has the content in it... this is really annoying. Is there a app that does this…
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unzipping split zip files named filea, fileb, filec, file1, file2,

I got my first mac today and Im really going crazy trying to do something quite simple I have some split zip files called somefilea.zip somefileb.zip somefilec.zip somefiled.zip ... to z.zip somefile1.zip somefile2.zip ... I'm trying to merge…
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What happens when interrupting a zip -erm process?

What happens if you interrupt following command $ zip -erm foo foo/dirfoo1 I realized that time will not permit me to finish. What happens when I Ctrl+C me out of this? Am I left with something that could be continued where it left off? If so,…
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Zip file extraction corruption/issues - no unzipping into sub-folders

Something weird I've noticed with Zip files and OSX recently (both on 10.7 and 10.6.*). Situation: a .zip file with sub-folder and long file names within it. When it's extracted on Windows it extracts all items within their sub-folders properly.…
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Why are zip file sizes different in finder compared to Google or Amazon Drive?

I was wondering why file sizes of my zipped archives (.zip) are inconsistent. A file that shows in the finder (macOS) as 9.17 GB shows up as being 8.54 GB on an Amazon Drive (same thing with Google Drive).
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iMac can't unzip password protected PC zipped file

I sent a .zip file to a friend with an iMac but he can't open it. It was created using PKZip on a Windows 7 PC, and it's Password protected. He's pretty technically inept so is there anything he needs to do to be able to access this file please?
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