Open a finder window and select the files, Ctrl+click them and then select Compress 15 items.Īnother irritation of macOS is that the zip archive is always called Archive.zip. Suppose you want to create a zip archive of some files on the disk. It then lets you select one or more files and just extract those, leaving the rest alone. Unarchiver is a free app in the Mac App Store that lets you open a zip and see what files it contains. To get one file out of a zip containing 100 files you must unarchive all 100 and then select and drag 99 to the Trash. This is very useful when the zips are large and contain a lot of files. You can even extract one or more files and save them elsewhere without having to unzip the whole archive. Windows for example, lets you look inside zip archives and see what files it contains. You can extract all the files from a zip archive or none. If you regularly work with zips on the Mac, you will be aware of the problem. Zip is just the most common archive type and it is almost always used when compressed files are required.
What is the irritation? Zip file handling. Now a free utility in the Mac App Store called Dr. There is a major irritation in macOS on the Apple Mac that has been around for many years.
