Raymond Lau’s hugely successful Stuffit dominated Mac compression utilities from introduction in 1987 until Mac OS X in 2001. Also a NuBus card, and most recently AppleArchive.
Archive Utility
Avoid using encrypted sparse bundles for the moment, as you can’t change their password. Apple Encrypted Archives aren’t ready for normal use either.
If you’re wondering how to store snippets of private info, sensitive files, or folders full of secrets, here’s how to use the right features in macOS.
Provided in Archive Utility and three command tools, its LZFSE compression even supports APFS special files like clones and sparse files.
Among the most useful are Archive Utility, now including Apple Archive compression, and Storage Management. But Network Utility is now non-functional.
How can you compress and decompress small files faster? In AppleArchive, just send more of them for processing at the same time.
First full release of this free utility designed to help move apps and more using AirDrop, as it doesn’t put decompressed contents into quarantine.
A new feature in Big Sur, which provides ready access to fast, efficient compression and decompression. Here’s first look and test app.
A future version of macOS (?10.16) will check code signatures more thoroughly than at present. Here’s what to do to start preparing for that.
When I tried to compress a folder in the Finder, nothing happened. How should I do this?
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