One example of zips that the standard archive utility won't open by default are epub books where you can rename to .zip and then open up for internal tweaks. I run into this all the time with the Linux Journal magazines so I use Unarchiver to deal with them. Not sure why this is the case but I'm glad to have a way around this.
On May 24, 2013, at 3:11 AM, Danny Noonan <[email protected]> wrote: > I love stuffit expander. The only issue I ever had was with a multi gig > archive and I think it was a bad archive anyway. > > Danny > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 24/05/2013, at 7:14 PM, Gerry Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> skype: gerry.cook1 >> email: [email protected] >> >> On May 24, 2013, at 6:58 PM, Ricardo Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> have you tried using the unarchiver? >>> >>> Ricardo Walker >>> [email protected] >>> Twitter:@apple2thecore >>> www.appletothecore.info >>> >>> 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? 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