Every one knows that compressing a files takes less space on your Mac’s hard disk than single uncompressed files. In Mac’s built-in compression and decompression option uses the ZIP format, which also happens to be one of the most commonly used archive file formats on the Internet. It’s a loss less data compression scheme which means that your file will remain exactly the same after being compressed then decompressed. If you’re not aware of how to compress file on your Mac device then follow the steps given below :
- In the finder select the file or folder in the folder.
- Right click or control click on the file to bring up the pop up menu.
- Select the compress file name.
- The Mac will begin to compress the file or folder you’ve selected. Once it’s done, you’ll find a file name that ends in .zip right next to the file you selected.
- The original file or folder untouched the ZIP file contains the compressed archive.
