Archive Utility??

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Archive Utility??

My sister's new iMac, 21" -- came up with an unquittable 'program' - Archive Utility; it was 'unarchiving' some .zip thingy. We could not force-quit it. Could not shut down machine. After power down, it came back on reboot. We finally killed it through Activity Monitor. Gone now, did not come back, yet. I find no ref to any 'Archive Utility'. What is it, where did it come from? Thanks, Mark

Message was edited by: Der Mark

MacBook, iMacG4 17, Mac OS X (10.6.1), MacBook 2GB Ram, 80GB drive, Airport Ex 10/100; iMac17G4 1GHtz 1GB, 10.5.4

Posted on May 9, 2010 10:28 AM

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Dick M

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May 9, 2010 10:41 AM in response to Der Jesse

Archive Utility is found in System/Library/Core Services. It is the app that uncompresses zip files, for instance, or compresses any file you wish by right clicking on it.

Why it wouldn't stop working I can't explain. Perhaps it was a corrupted zip file?

RM

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Jolly Giant

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May 9, 2010 10:43 AM in response to Der Jesse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_Utility

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Der Jesse Author

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May 9, 2010 10:54 AM in response to Dick M

Thanks Dick, I figured it was there somewhere. M

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