SW QA at Apple is getting worse and worse. something we are sort of calling "10.7.5.1" or whatever. So instead of being forthright about this and saying "we really screwed up here", and calling 10.7.5 dead in the water, and releasing a point update to 10.7.6 (which is the RIGHT way to handle SW CM), instead we are copping out and releasing. (However if you called us and got a level-2 tech on the phone, they would admit to you off-the-record that Apple was aware of this problem). However we didn't have the integrity to admit it even though there were tons of discussions about this all over the web and on our own discussion boards. Well, we screwed up big time with the 10.7.5 update, and we have known about this for a few weeks. This is what this really means (from Apple). The short version is that you can select a file or group of files, right-click, and choose “Compress” to make a quick zip archive of those selected items. You can read a detailed tutorial on how to make zip files in Mac OS here if interested. How do you make a zip file on the Mac anyway? You can read how to view the contents of zip archives without extracting them here if this interests you. In fact, you can easily do this using multiple methods, some of which are built directly into Mac OS via the command line. You may be wondering if it’s possible to view the contents of a compressed zip archive, without bothering to extract the actual archive. Can you view the contents of a zip file without extracting the archive? You can also make a zip file via command line if desired, using the ‘zip’ command and pointing at a file or path to a folder as discussed here. The syntax is simple, just point the command at a zip archive to extract it to the present working directory. The ‘unzip’ command is available in the Terminal to unzip archived zip files as well. Whether you use the default Archive Utility tool that comes with Mac OS to open zip files or go for the third party solution like The Unarchiver is entirely up to you, both will open a zip file with a simple double-click option. That vast support for extracting a wide variety of file types is one of the many reasons why The Unarchiver is a great third party app to add to a Mac. sit, gzip gz, tar, and many other file archive formats that you may encounter when downloading data from the internet or in emails. The Unarchiver can open zip archives as well as open RAR files on a Mac, zip CPGZ files, bz2 bzip. This enables the third party tool to open zip archives and other items in Mac OS that the default Archive Utility may not support, which is another benefit. Once The Unarchiver is installed and launched, it will want to associate with all known archive types on the Mac.
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