WINZIP

There is no need for "a type of WinZIP". Your Mac is smart enough. To make a ".zip" file, all you need to do is select the files you want to be in the zip file, and then just control+click on the file, and select "create an archive". This will make you a .zip file. To unzip a ".zip" file, just double click on it.

If you need more info: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/zip.html

Hi Mr. Raticate,

Welcome to Apple Discussions

As mentioned about you can use the Create Archive Of, but there is a program that you will find to be extremely useful and essential in the future. I am talking about StuffIt Expander. Many downloads that you may get have .sitx, which is the StuffIt way of compressing. Its free, its worth downloading. The StuffIt Deluxe version is not free, but it is also a great program, gives you more options. I didn't buy it because it is a little overkill.

I hope that helps,
Jon

And if you want to look inside an archive and just extract individual files from a Winzip file, check out http://www.maczipit.com/

Stuffit Deluxe will do the same for SIT and SITX files and numerous other file formats.

It would be nice, though, to have a simple program like Winzip 9 that just works. Stuffit Deluxe 10 (which I upgraded to yeasterday) seems to work, but it has all sorts of add-ons I don't need. I don't like the proprietary .sit/sitx formats, whatever the compression advantages. It will uncompress a lot of formats, but it will only compress in zip, sit/sitx and lha (admittedly, most likely an issue of royalties for formats like rar). And it costs too much for what it does.

Apple's zip support is not a whole lot of use; what if you just want to see the contents of a file without unzipping it? Or verify the integrity of the file?

Zipit may work, but it hasn't been updated since 2002. At that rate, I'd as soon use a command line tool as pay for Zipit.

PowerMac G5 1.8 SP (late 2004), 1.42 mhz 14 iBook Mac OS X (10.4.3) both with 1.5 GB Ram

John, Maczipit does just work.

Hi John,

Here is an article from Macworld's Mac OS X Hints about .zip files and compressing/uncompressing. I thought you might be interested.

Jon

Thanks for the link. It will be helpful.