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Archive Utility

Inside Apple Archive: more than a compression format

Provided in Archive Utility and three command tools, its LZFSE compression even supports APFS special files like clones and sparse files.

May 10, 2022 Macs, Technology

CoreServices apps: the rest

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Among the most useful are Archive Utility, now including Apple Archive compression, and Storage Management. But Network Utility is now non-functional.

December 27, 2021 Macs, Technology

Cormorant now supports drag and drop, and can run ten times faster

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How can you compress and decompress small files faster? In AppleArchive, just send more of them for processing at the same time.

December 11, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Use AppleArchive for compressing and decompressing files with Cormorant 1.0

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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.

December 2, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Compress and decompress files using AppleArchive

A new feature in Big Sur, which provides ready access to fast, efficient compression and decompression. Here’s first look and test app.

November 24, 2020 Macs, Technology

Preparing for new security rules: how signatures can get stripped

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.

November 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Zipping up a folder

When I tried to compress a folder in the Finder, nothing happened. How should I do this?

September 14, 2015 Macs, Technology

Data Compression

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?

April 16, 2015 Macs, Technology
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