
Remember the days of small hard drives and a large number of files? Remember Stuffit, the utility we used to compress Mac files to save space or to send files to others?
Those days are almost, but not quite, gone. It’s time for a better zip for OS X. Improving on something good is always a challenge. What’s better than Apple’s Archive, which zips files?
What? You didn’t know your Mac can zip up files? Sure. Click on a file in Finder. Right click. Select Compress..... (excerpted).
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matt_s said:
CleanArchiver is better. It will remove .DS_Store files and other spurious elements generated by OS X which confuse Windows users. I’ve had CleanArchiver in my Dock since Jaguar.