ARCHIVED: In Mac OS X, how do I compress or decompress files?
Compressed (i.e., archived or zipped) files may contain many
separate files in one large archive, which often take up less
space than the original files. Before you can read or run all
the separate files and programs, you must use an archiving
program to extract the files from the archive. Zip is a standard
compression and archival format. If you're using Mac OS X, the
operating system compresses and decompresses zip files for you.
Compressing a file or folder - Highlight the selection to be
compressed. - Somewhere within the selected files, right-click,
and then choose Compress. If you do not have a mouse with a
right-click button, highlight the selection and hold down the
Controlkey while clicking the trackpad. .zipfile will be created
in the same directory as your selected files. Note that your
original files (from which the compressed file was made) are not
deleted automatically, and will remain in the directory. Note:
You cannot name the zip f