Compressing Files in Mac OS X

Email attachments are better when they are smaller in size, since it will be faster both to send and receive the email. In order to shrink the size of a file or files, compressing the file will help shrink the size of the file, but still retain it's original form. And zipped files can be opened on both Mac OS X and Windows.

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[CPAR15]

So whenever i try and do this, instead of it giving me like the folder with the zipper on it, it gives me a brown looking folder. Any help?

[MadBoyAstro]

@CPAR15 Not sure, is the brown folder a .zip? Never heard of a brown folder phenomenon

[CPAR15]

@MadBoyAstro Ya it says that its a zip.

[MadBoyAstro]

@CPAR15 It should be fine then, I'm not sure why it's a brown folder, but as long as you can unzip it and it has the original files, then it should be fine.

[CPAR15]

@MadBoyAstro Im not sure if im actually even able to 'un zip' it. Causw when ever i double click it, it just opens it up on the desk top in a basic blue folder.

[MadBoyAstro]

@CPAR15 Actually in Mac OS X when you double click a zipped file it automatically unzips it for you.

[CPAR15]

@MadBoyAstro O alright, that makes sense. Thanks for the help

[matthk]

A side note, to reduce the file size of Videos in OSX, (for Youtube uploading etc.)

You could simply try the free tool "Stomp".

Look for it via the Apple Downloads page, or VersionTracker. :-)

[shahou88]

thank you :)