Turning a conventional file (whether picture, video, music file, document or other type) or folder into a compressed zip file is very easy on a Mac: Right-click (or Ctrl-click) the file or folder. Follow these steps to open zip files on Mac: Click the Unzip button. From the drop down menu, choose to unzip your files to this Mac, iCloud Drive, Dropbox or Google Drive. A 'Finder style' window will open. You can browse to the folder where you want the files saved. Choose to unzip the Entire Zip file or Selected Items. Similar to this issue, if you are dealing with a set of zip files that do not include numbered file extensions (foo.z01, foo.z02, etc) and are simply multiple zip files that should be unarchived together into the same directory, the following worked for me.
I recently had a need to unzip a whole bunch of zip files at work containing new client RADIUS certificates to be installed on the clients due to the depreciation of the SHA1 algorithm for security reasons by the software vendors (Microsoft and Apple in this case).
These zip files contained one useful certificate file (a .pfx containing the required certificate and the new certificate chain) per zip and a bunch of other files that are only applicable in certain situations, that I need to remove once decompressed and extracted the files from the zip archive. I consequently used a simple multiple-step process utilizing the power of the terminal prompt/command line to achieve this.
Firstly if you are needing to do this, I am assuming the files are all easily accessible and to make it easier, let’s make a directory to house all the initial zip files and put the files in there, this makes the cleanup so much easier later.
Once this is achived we can utilise the terminal prompt to make the rest of the process easier. I recommend you do this and put the files in their own directory as the following command swquice will unzip ALL zip archives files (or rather it will attempt to unzip anything with a .zip extension) in the directory, and will delete them if you do that part of the process.
Unable To Unzip File Mac
- Winzip can zip or unzip on Mac, and open.7z file on Mac. This Winzip app on Mac support.
- RAR and ZIP files are commonly shared online due to the smaller download size and convenient one-file download they offer. But there are still differences between them. Most noticeably, macOS can extract ZIP files without downloading third-party software. Just double-click the.zip file and your Mac does the rest.
Open terminal (Type Terminal into Spotlight Command + Space Bar or it is in the Application/Utilities folder)
Unzip 7z Files Mac
In terminal do the following
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[code language=”bash”]# go to the containing folder
cd /Users/jpsimmonds/Downloads/AAAA-Certs
#Unzip all the Files in the directory (escape “” is used to stop wildcard expansion)
unzip *.zip
#Remove All Zip Files – To change the file types to remove change the “zip” portion of the command
rm -f *.zip[/code]
Nice and easy, the files are now extracted and the initial zips (and other files if you ran the delete command on extra extensions) are removed, leaving you just the files that you require
Since macOS is based on Unix there are a number of ways to compress files and folders within the filing system using Unix based application code, below are a few options using the Terminal or command line interface (cli). The default command line application interface in macOS is the Terminal and is stored in /Applications/Utilities.
File and folder compression saves on file size and ensures the contents are captured and delivered or stored as one monolithic file. A compressed file which contains files and folders is generally referred to as an archive. Here are some built-in compression applications you can use including zip, tar, gz, bz2, gz and dmg. Facefilter pro 3 04.
ZIP – Cross Platform
First up is ZIP one of the most commonly used compression techniques used across all platforms
To compress
To extract
If you want to make a zip without those invisible Mac resource files such as “_MACOSX” or “._Filename” and .ds store files, use the “-X” option in the command so:
TAR.GZ – Cross Platform
Second up is TAR, an old favorite on Unix/Linux – you add the GZ for the compression – compresses tighter than zip
To compress
To extract
TAR.BZ2 – Cross Platform
A variation on TAR GZ but with better compression than both tar.gz and zip.
To compress
To extract
GZ
Without the tar
To extract
DMG – macOS Only
This one is macOSnative only – for a GUI interface use /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility – for command line use:
To create
To mount
To view
To Eject
You can also use a number of different formats for creating a .dmg
- UDZO – Compressed image (default)
- UDRO – Read-only image
- UDBZ – Better compressed image
- UDRW – Read/Write image
- UDTO – DVD disk image
That’s the low down, the more common compression packages available will typically be covered in one of the above.