One of the more common types of files that we have to deal with are archived files. You’ve seen them before, and they come in zip, rar, 7z, tar, and other file types. The point of using archives is to ...

Archiving (automatic or manual) in Microsoft Outlook helps you to enhance applications’ performance and optimize storage by moving older emails and other items to a separate (archive) PST file. It ...

With compression now built into Mac OS X 10.3 in the form of the Finder’s Archive command, has Aladdin’s StuffIt Deluxe outlived its usefulness? For remedial compression chores, perhaps. But if you’re ...

I used to dread organizing my old files. Years of photos, work documents, and random downloads sat scattered across multiple hard drives, and the thought of compressing everything into neat archives ...

Just saying the word "BitTorrent" makes those at record labels and movie studios cringe, but honestly, it's not always used for nefarious purposes. The Internet Archive, which is a non-profit digital ...

Compressing files is a quick and easy way to archive and group files. There are many occasions where archives are useful, a driver download, file backup or Linux distro download. In this how-to we’ll ...

We all use archive file formats like .zip, .rar in order to employ lossless data compression. In a single archive file, we can add several files and folders and considerably reduce the combined size ...

In response to an article about Archive Utility's preferences, a reader asked if there was a way to show the contents of an archived file. I used to have a QuickLook plugin for this, but it stopped ...