Good morning
Could I ask for some guidance please.
I need upload a data file to my website. This file is a gz data file.
Have downloaded the file onto my iMac (download folder)
This file needs to be extracted or unzipped before being uploaded to my site, what ever the correct terminology is?
Can I do this within my Mac environment or do I have to download a third party application, if I do can anyone recommend one.
Thanks
Shaun
iMac
If your comfortable using Terminal you could use the gunzip command. For more info read the man page for it.
Otherwise you could download "The Unarchiver" from the Mac App Store. It's free, but it can only decompress files. Once installed you'll only have to double-click the *.gz file.
If your comfortable using Terminal you could use the gunzip command. For more info read the man page for it.
Otherwise you could download "The Unarchiver" from the Mac App Store. It's free, but it can only decompress files. Once installed you'll only have to double-click the *.gz file.
You may have somehow got an odd setting when compressing with 7zip.
If that is the case, then of course windows machine would still unzip.
Why the reason for the .gz compression instead of simply standard zipping?
OS X can decompress .zip files natively.
Anyway, did you try gunzip from Terminal (gunzip -d FullFilePath).
Note: Once entering gunzip -d, you can just drag and drop the
file on the Terminal window and the path will fill in. If there are any spaces
in the path, surround it with quotes.
http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz
If I just double click......message...no application available.
It auto-unzipped for me.
If you are having a problem, it might be that the association with gz files has been lost.
Select it, Get Info, and in the Opens With section, change it to Archive Utility (you can find it by following Alberto's instructions).
Then, click Change All…
You should just need to double-click it and the OS will expand it.
There is no need to use any Terminal command or other software.
Double clicking GeoIP.dat.gz extracts GeoIP.dat file.
Try the free Stuffit Expander:
If the file is a real gzipped file, OSX default Archive Utility should handle it just fine without any third party software.
Have a look at the picture I posted. Open a Finder window starting from your main drive. Navigate to System -> Library -> CoreSerices -> Applications
Can you see Archive Utility?
Hello
The file is a gz. On my windows machine ( can I say those words on here) I used 7 zip to do the job. No problems.
The error message "could not not extract".
Deleted the file and downloaded it again. Will not open. I know the file is good because I used the same source on my windows machine. I haven't got my windows machine now, after upgrading to 10, it went out the window. The only reason I used windows was I couldn't work out how to do it on my Mac. I very careful about using third party applications which is why I always ask instead of clicking away on google.
Shaun
Hello Everyone
Thank you everyone for your time.....sorry to be a pain
This is the file i am trying to unzip
http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz
If I just double click......message...no application available.
Regards
Shaun
Hello Everyone
Thank you so much everyone Alberto, Barney and Woodmeister.
What a team. Thanks for giving your time to the likes me. Wonderful.
Thank you.
There was also a problem I had security set to apple and trusted developers, which I always do.
Thanks for your time.
Downloaded "The Unarchiver" the application would not unzip the gz file ?
Shaun
How did you try to open it? Do you get any error messages?
Could the file be broken? Did you try re-downloading it?
Are you sure it really is a gz file? It might just have a wrong file extension.
There was also a problem I had security set to apple and trusted developers, which I always do.
That would have had nothing to do with this problem.
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