OS X ZIP’er

Posted by Clayton Lewis on May 25, 2007 under Blog Articles, Mac Tips | Be the First to Comment

It’s a pain to send a large file over the Internet, or a horde of smaller ones. Fortunately, OS X has built-in tools to ease this.Select the file or files, or even a FOLDER of files you want to bundle for shipment in Finder, then select File > Create Archive.The result is a new file created in the same location of your selected files named “ARCHIVE.ZIP”. This smaller compressed file can added to an email attachment and sent down the email pipe.(NOTE: Not all mail servers are created equal and some companies Mail servers/IT departments will reject anything with a “.zip” attached to it and have limits on the size of attachments. Double-check that your email made it to the other end safely.)