Thanks to ever-growing hard-drive capacities and ever-faster network connections, compressing files isn’t quite the vital and frequent task it used to be. Still, it’s useful in certain situations; for ...

Zip files are handy when you need to send someone multiple files or folders. Not only do zip files compress the data, making the files smaller, they combine everything together. This also makes them ...

How to use the zip and bzip2 macOS file compression commands Your email has been sent A variety of Mac applications compress files, but two simple commands native to macOS fulfill the same ...

Panic mode activated – you’re sending an important folder of pictures via email but the files are too large to send. Or maybe it’s your computer storage that’s the issue, but you just can’t seem to ...

Click Save Settings > OK. How to create a RAR file on Mac? You can create and open a RAR file on Mac using the WinRAR software specifically designed for Mac computers simply called RAR. In Terminal, ...

I remember back in the olden, pre-OS X days, when you’d need to use a utility like Stuffit to compress a bunch of files together into one archive, shedding excess data and making it easier to get ...

Are you fed up with the stock macOS Archive Utility when it comes to compressing or uncompressing files? The stock app is far from the best, so here are five third-party utilities that you should try ...

February 28, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google This is a good question, as it seems like every other file you download nowadays is in a different compression ...

If you need to open a file with the rar extension on your Mac, there's a handy app called The Unarchiver that can help you do just that. Rar files are commonly used to extract a huge amount of data — ...