I have had some zip files not opening on the mac. No idea why. It's only been 
one or two out of the many I've tried, but I have seen what the original poster 
reported. I had to unzip it in Windows. NO idea why some zip files don't open 
properly.

Lisette

On 24/05/2013, at 9:06 AM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote:

> I did one yesterday. I put my cursor on top of the file name that had the.zip 
> extension, impressed commando. When I press down arrow, my unzipped files 
> were there it took about two seconds. It's a lot easier than unzippering  
> them in Windows.
> Regards,
> Gigi
> On May 23, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> It does it automatically, leaving you with the original zip file and a 
>> folder containing the zip file's contents. If you have file extensions 
>> disabled you may hear the file and folder, which will have the same name, 
>> and think you have only copied the zip file. One, though, is the unzipped 
>> folder.
>> On May 23, 2013, at 1:29 PM, shane christenson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi folks. When I try to open a zip file on my mac, it seems to only want to 
>>> make another copy of the file. How do I tell the archive utility to extract 
>>> the file? Thanks
>>> 
>>> Shane
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