{"id":4973,"date":"2023-03-28T16:31:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2023-03-28T16:31:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:31:37","slug":"who-needs-winzip-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/2023\/03\/28\/who-needs-winzip-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Who needs WinZip, anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Welcome to Advisorator’s Tip of the Week, helping you learn something new from the tech world every Tuesday!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by reader’s inquiry, here’s a friendly reminder that you don’t need WinZip\u2014or any paid file extraction software\u2014anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ZIP format is useful for transferring lots of files in a single package, and a many apps use it for this purpose. If you download an entire folder’s worth of files from Google Drive, for instance, they’ll all come bundled as one ZIP file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more than two decades now, Microsoft has built ZIP file support right into Windows. Just right-click any ZIP file and select “Extract All,” and Windows will copy all the enclosed files to a new folder. Conversely, you can highlight multiple files, right click, and select “Send To > Compressed (zipped) folder” to create a new ZIP file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The procedure is similar on MacOS: Just double-click any ZIP file to copy its contents into a new folder, or right-click a group of files and click “Compress” to roll them into a ZIP file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if you come across a more exotic archive format, such as RAR or 7Z? Check out PeaZip<\/a> or The Unarchiver for MacOS<\/a>. Both are free with no ads or in-app purchases, and can compress or extract practically any format. Sorry, Corel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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