Part I Creat a .zip file on mac osx
If you are new to Mac, you might wan to know how to create zip file on Mac OS X. In case you do not know what is zip file, you can refer to here. With the help of zip file, you are able to compress multiple files into one within few mouse clicks and share it with your friends easily.
To create zip files in Mac OS X, follow the steps guide below:
Open your Finder -> Highlight all the files that you wish to create a zip file
Now right click on them, and select “Compress x items”
Now you will see a zip file is being created at the same folder with the name of “Archive.zip”
Done! You just created a zip file. Now you can just rename the zip file to a more meaningful name.
Part II Unzip files on mac osx
There are many free unzip software in the market, such as "MacZip for Mac", it's really free.
MacZip is a free tool that includes both zip (for compression) and unzip (for extraction) capabilities. MacZip can compress files for the following systems: Unix, VMS, MS-DOS, OS/2, Windows NT, Minix, Atari, Macintosh, Amiga, and Acorn RISC OS. MacZip also can unzip its own zipped archives. MacZip works with archives produced by PKZip, and PKZip and PKUnzip can work with archives produced by MacZip. In addition, the program supports encryption for secure archive creation.
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