Provided in Archive Utility and three command tools, its LZFSE compression even supports APFS special files like clones and sparse files.
Archive Utility
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?
No matter how much disk storage you have, it just seems to fill up. Compressing little-used and archived items might be a good way to save space. Does it?
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