Hi I've found stuffet expander from the app store free to be very good as well. 
It's opend some files that the unarchiver hasn't been able to, and there's 
archive utility that, comes up with open with. Thanks.
cheers gerry have a great day
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On May 24, 2013, at 6:58 PM, Ricardo Walker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> have you tried using the unarchiver?
> 
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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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