How To Zip Files On A Macbook Pro

Compress a file or folder.

How to zip files on a macbook pro. This is a little more difficult but well worth the trouble if youre going to be sending a sensitive file or document across an unsecured. Install this application on your macbook pro system and launch it. Now type in the command that will simultaneously compress and password protect the files in the form of zip er filenamezip filesorfolderstocompress. At last a challenge.

For example you could have archivezip archive 2zip archive 3zip and so on. On your mac do any of the following. Type in the password you want to use to protect the files. Next youll be prompted with a password prompt.

In this step you have to add the zip files that you. How to password protect zip files. From main screen select compress option under manage tab as shown in fig afig a. On some apple computers you can also compress a file by simply choosing filecompress.

To unzip the entire folder right click to select extract all and then follow the instructions. If you compress a single item the compressed file has the name of the original item with the zip extension. Ive been trying to open zip files but when i do i get a exe file instead and i cant open that either when i do i get a text file with a bunch of random symbols and letters. Main screen step 2.

Control click it or tap it using two fingers then choose compress from the shortcut menu. More less macbook pro mac os x 1072. The files are now compressed in a zip extension and the archive is created in the same location as the original file name except with the zip appended to its name. Steps to unzip files on macbook pro.

Then drag or copy the item from the zipped folder to a new location. Now select openupdate rzip file option to compress video files as shown in fig b. To unzip a single file or folder double click the zipped folder to open it. Openupdate rzip file step 3.