zip files I download from around the Internet, using various Web browsers from Safari to Firefox to Chrome to wget to cURL. This bug occurs with some, but not all (about 5%) of the.
You can open compressed files on a Mac by simply double-clicking on them. The compressed file will be saved with a. zip files (Archive Utility correctly shows an error message for those). You can use the Archive Utility to compress files on your Mac by selecting the files you need to compress, Right-clicking or Control-clicking on them, and selecting the ‘Compress’ option from the pop-up menu.
This bug persists to recent versions of Mac OS X, including Mac OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks, and I've noticed this bug happening to me since 10.6 Leopard, maybe even 10.5 Tiger. zip.cpgz file, ad infinitum.Īs a workaround, other programs like The Unarchiver.app, and the Unix command line program `unzip`, are able to correctly expand the original. Attempting to expand that file yields another. Instead of expanding the actual contents, Archive Utility.app creates a. zip file from the Web, Mac's default program for expanding them, Archive Utility.app, doesn't expand it correctly.
