Questions tagged [archive]
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Compress without .DS_Store and __MACOSX
When I compress a folder or file by right click menu of Mac OS X, the archived file contains .DS_Store and __MACOSX folders. Because I share the archived file online for download, Windows users ...
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How can I extract an .xz archive graphically on Mac OS X 10.4?
Recent versions of StuffIt will extract .xz archives, but they will not run on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. And using something like Fink, it should be possible to install xz-utils on 10.4, so that .xz ...
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Is there any Mac software to handle archives (zip, rar, 7z, tar, etc.) that allows browsing?
I am looking for a software to handle archives on OS X.
I know there are many of them quite easy to find, but none seems to have the most basic feature that most Windows archive applications have: ...
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Can I fix things so Archive Utility doesn't hang on all zip files?
I am using Mac OS X 10.8.2. I don't know exactly when it started (might have been after the upgrade to 10.8.2, but not sure), but now, any zip file I try to open starts up 'Archive Utility', but then ...
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Preview an archive contents without extracting it
less command on Ubuntu allows to peek inside different kinds of archives from terminal. For example, all of these commands would show me the list of files in each of the four archives:
less archive....
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Batch compress multiple folders into individual zip files
I have dozens of folders that I need to compress into individual zip files.
If I select all of these folders in the Finder and do "Compress [X] Items," I get one zip file containing all of the ...
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Swipe settings in El Capitan Mail.app
This is a different question from this.
Is anybody able to develop a Terminal command that will change the behaviour of swipe settings in Mail?
By default swipe right is 'Mark as Unread/Read' while ...
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What's your strategy for archiving emails in Mail.app? Do you archive your Sent & Trashed emails too?
I'm using Mail.app + IMAP email accounts for my email. I want to be able to archive all my email and make them searchable.
Currently I copy the previous month's email from my IMAP folders to local ...
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Is xar preinstalled on macOS? [duplicate]
$ which xar
/usr/bin/xar
It's in /usr/bin. Does that mean it's preinstalled on mac?
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Not able to extract any .gz or .tar file (Mac OS X 10.5.8)
I have Mac OS X 10.5.8. I am not able to extract .tar or .tgz files with any of the extractor utilities (Mac OS Default Archiver or WinZip or 7zip or any other, I have tried almost all possible).
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Apple Mail.app hides Archive folder - how to get it to show
I use Mail.app with FastMail. Mostly, it just works.
However, when I start up Mail it never shows the Archive folder. The Archive button will move mail to it, but it's not there. The Goto mailbox ...
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Can I create a self-extracting archive for Mac?
In Windows I can create self-extracting archives, which end in exe instead of rar, and then you don't need to have an unarchiver available to extract them. How can I create a self-extracting archive ...
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How do I extract an ECM archive in Mac OS X Lion?
I came across a ECM archive that I need to extract.
The Unarchiver can't handle this format, and I'm not sure about other utilities.
How do I extract ECM in Mac OS X Lion?
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Can I change compression settings on built-in archive utility?
I have a bunch of files I want to compress to stick in my dropbox account (as a single archive file.) When I select all the files in Finder and right click, I get the choice to "compress", which does ...
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Can macOS system open zip and tar archives natively?
I have to upload an archive for some Linux, Windows and Mac OS users. I'm using Linux so I'm sure everybody could handle a tar file, Windows users will get some problems, so I think zip is the best ...
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Is it possible to create a compressed file protected by password that can be opened on Mac & PC?
Is it possible, on a Mac, to create a password-protected zip file, that can be decompressed on a PC and on Mac without problems? Is there a free way to do it if possible?
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macOS Sierra Archive Utility compress popping up new windows
After updating my macOS to Sierra I've started experiencing a strange bug. When trying to compress some stuff to a zip (via the Archive Utility) it pops up a new Finder window after each compression.
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Unarchive a file with a set of provided password list
Is there a possibility like in jDownloader, where password protected files are automatically extracted by trying all passwords one by one which are provided by the user?
Something like this:
$ ...
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How to change the Mail "Archive" folder for email account/s?
On OS X 10.8.3, in Mail, is there a way to change the account folder that the "Archive" button sends the mail messages to?
For example, on GMail it should go into "All Mail".
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Trying to copy archive from one network share to another while ignoring the tilde character
I've been trying to copy an archive volume from one network share to another. Because most of these files are Mac files, I am using Mac Terminal to do so. I've tried every combination of cp, rsync, ...
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What is the technical explanation for why Archive Utility can break certain apps, while other unarchivers won't?
I just experienced this issue described in this answer.
I had downloaded a zip file containing a macOS app, and first unzipped it with Archive Utility, when trying to open the app, I got the error ...
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apple mail 4.5 max. mbox export size limited to approx. 4.7GB
following is a problem that we have been trying to solve for a while now...
we are attempting to archive a couple of rather large mail folders from within apple mail, they contain in excess of 20000 ...
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Is an Archive Mailbox just a regular mailbox? Or is it special?
Apple Mail 9.3 has an archiving feature. I'd like to better understand what this feature does, how it works, and why someone would want to use it. Unfortunately, I'm having a hard time finding ...
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How can I retrieve image files from a damaged zip archive file?
When i tried to unzip using the Mac default Archive zip utility and the error message: Error 1 - Operation not permitted.
Then I tried using 7zx and got the error message: Cannot open the files as ...
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How to prevent MacOS from adding dot underscore files (._whatever.html )in zip archives?
Our organisation receives zip files from Mac users which contain a ._ file in addition to the file we expect. In the past this was due to resource fork and data fork encoding limitations on other file ...
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How can I create a zip archive for Windows and Linux users?
In Finder, when I create an archive ("Compress items..."), the resulting zip archive has .DS_Store files in folders and files have resource forks. How can I create a zip archive suitable for cross ...
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Create tar archive with xz compression?
I'd like to create a tarball using the xz compression tool. According to google, as of 10.10 there is an undocumented "--xz" switch for tar but I can't get it to work. On linux there is a "-J" switch ...
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Automate daily saving of webarchive?
Is it possible to automate the saving of a webpage (using the .webarchive format) using either Automator (in a background process) or using Terminal?
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How does macOS store Unix file permissions in ZIP files
I am trying to extract a ZIP file in Java which was created on a Mac using the built-in archive functionality of the Finder. As the ZIP file contains an application bundle, it is important to retain ...
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Archived Apple Messages - How to print or reactivate
Is there a way to print or reactivate text messages that have been archived? I can view the archived messages just fine in the ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iChat/Data/Library/Messages directory.
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Trying to find file location of Mac Mail Smartboxes so that I can run automatic email archiver
I'm currently working on a MacBook late 2008 with OS X Yosemite 10.10.3.
I use Mac Mail for my email.
I have created smart mailboxes to collect together emails that relate to a project number.
When ...
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Archived Messages Reappear in the Mail App Inbox
I'm using Gmail on my iPhone 6 (IOS 9.1). When I archive some messages (by swiping left on the message in the Mail.app), they disappear from my Inbox, then get added right back a second or two later. ...
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Moving individual Mailbox to external drive
Does anyone know if it's possible to move a "Mailbox" in Apple Mail to an external drive? I have a relatively small SSD drive, and I'd like to create an Archive mailbox on an external drive.
I don't ...
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windows like (context menu) unzipper in mac?
Is there an app that acts like windows-based unzipper?
I don't want my unarchiver unzip when I click a zipped file. I rather want to right click then click 'unzip' or something similar.
Update: I ...
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"Compress file" in Catalina sets wrong permissions on ZIP file
When zipping one or more files via Finder (Right click on file → Compress) the created the ZIP file has permissions set to rw------- / 600.
When I use the zip command in Terminal, permissions are set ...
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Compressed archive in Lion creates a root-level "Archive" folder in .zip file
I'm trying to compress 5 files into an Archive.zip
Selecting the 5 files and using Finder's built in Compress feature, the resulting Archive.zip contains a root level folder name "Archive", which in ...
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I am not able to open a .tgz file on a Mac
I am not able to open a .tgz file on a Mac. I tried unarchiver, stock software, commander, stuffit. What can I do?
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Mail.app in OS X — IMAP and Archive Mailbox subfolder creation
I am using Mail.app with an IMAP .com email address:
For some reason, at 10.9, Mail changed and now the special "Archive" Mailbox doesn't allow for new subfolders to be added within the "Archive".
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Define Archive Folder in different account
Following the question, How to change the Mail “Archive” folder for email accounts in El Capitan:
I have several mail accounts in macOS Sierra and would like to archive all mail in one folder in one ...
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Duplicate archive subfolders with Mail.app
I have a strange problem with Mail and I cannot understand if it's a bug or not.
When I archive a message, Mail creates duplicated subfolders. They are called "On my Mac" and they are located under "...
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Find which RAR file is bad
I have a RAR I downloaded made up of multiple files. When trying to extract it, it tells me the data is incomplete, something bad with one of the files.
Considering I had to download multiple large ...
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How do I get archive to work in Mail.app in Lion?
I can't get archive to work on Lion. When I choose archive in Mail.app it creates a folder called Archived. That's not what I want. When I choose delete it doesn't remove the message from my inbox. It ...
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Open an IPA file from the command line
I am using an OSX box to run a bash script to extract an iOS IPA file so that I can use otool and nm to extract details about the app for vulnerability analysis. The ipa files are already decrypted, ...
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Archive in Xcode11 not showing in organizer even though status is succeeded
no (scarcely found) solutions from other threads helped, reason being (I think) that they were about different versions of Xcode. The issue seems prevalent throughout the versions, but solutions are ...
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Apple Mail: Adding two or more standard actions
I am happily using Apple Mail and have ordered my mail chaos into a great structured tree of certain archive directories. I use apple Mail rules to organize a lot of the incoming traffic to be ...
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How do I create a .tgz from Finder using Archive Utility?
How do I create a .tgz from Finder using Archive Utility? That is, I'd like to right-click on a directory and tar and zip it.
Yes I know how to work with tar from the shell:
tar zcvf ../foo.tgz . ...
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Download Entire iMessage History with One Person as Plain Text
I am doing some archiving after a loss and would like to preserve a chat thread with one person in plaid text/pdf (not .HTML by date). The thread goes back 2.5years, so there is a lot. I have accessed ...
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Zip the contents of every sub-folder in a folder in Mac automatically
I have this folder/file structure
parent folder
--subfolder1
-sub-subfolder
-file1
-file2
--subfolder2
-sub-subfolder
-file1
-file2
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I want to:
create zip files from the contents of ...
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Software for managing Word files (doc, docx) archive
I have an archive of .doc/.docx files, which I'm frequently using to pull some information. I'm looking for some software that would allow me to search through the content of all these files (Mac OS X ...
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How to change the Mail “Archive” folder for email accounts in El Capitan
I have set the Apple Mail "Archive" folder to something custom in the past with the help of this question. However, the folder that I was previously using is "stuck" as the Archive folder, and my ...
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