How to compress my files and folders, How to compress my files and folders

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How to compress my files and folders, How to compress my files and folders

Good morning,

My name is Jai Bhandari and I am from London, UK.

I am sending this out to everyone that can help me to compress my files and folders, as I believe my macbook pro is starting to freeze and caused by having a slow machine, is there anyone that can suggest to me how and what do I use to compress these files into one folder.

Thank you for reading this and hope to hear from you soon.

Many regards

Jai

Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Jun 25, 2012 10:37 PM

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Jun 25, 2012 10:52 PM in response to JAI2012

You can 'compress' files and folders from the Finder by selecting the items and choosing File>Compress "selected file or folder". This will create a zip archive and will save you some space. (I just tried it on a 16GB folder and it compressed it to an 11GB zip file). After you zip the file/folder the original can be deleted )until you need to access it again, then you can just double-click the zip file).

If you're trying to free up disk space on your hard drive, this is not the best method... but you didn't ask about that...

Clinton

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