Hello,

have you tried using the unarchiver?

Ricardo Walker
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On May 24, 2013, at 1:58 AM, Lisette Wesseling <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> 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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