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Add A File To An Existing Archive & Password Protect It On Mac [Tip]

Compressing files and creating archives in Mac is easily accomplished through the default utility, Archive, which compresses to a whole host of formats. Files can be compressed in command line as well via the Terminal, but having to compress files or folders through the command line is much more complicated and inconvenient, which is why [...] (more…)

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iPackr: File Compression & Extraction Utility With Quick Preview [Mac]

There’s no doubt that the default archive utility in Mac does what it’s supposed to do, but that certainly doesn’t mean it is the only archive utility you will ever need. There is a slew of other file archiving tools out there, and some are more feature rich than others, or present a better interface [...] (more…)

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SpinZip: Create ZIP Files With Custom File Count Or Archive Size

SpinZip is a portable application for Windows that allows you to create ZIP files in three unique ways; User Specified Size, Specified Number of Files per ZIP, and One file per ZIP (auto-named). The application is developed for users who often need to send ZIP files via mail, and require selecting files manually from the [...] (more…)

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Keka: Extract Protected Archives & Split Large Ones Into Parts [Mac]

Compressing files to reduce their size is something we’ve all done, either to save disk space, or to make it easier and faster to email them. For the Windows platform, there are a multitude of file compression applications available, and very few of them will cost you anything. Mac, however, is a different story. The default [...] (more…)

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Make Manual And Scheduled Backups With FBackup

FBackup is a backup utility for Windows that can create and manage backups of files and folders. The backups can be sorted on local, removable or remote locations. It allows you to protect your data by scheduling tasks and password protecting your backups. The data can be stored in original form, or in compressed archives [...] (more…)

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UnRarIt Batch Extracts Rar, Zip And 7z (7-Zip) Archive Files

UnRarIt is an archive extraction program which can unpack RAR, ZIP and 7zip compressed archives together in one go. It supports drag and drop functionality and automatically extracts different kind of compressed archives to a specified folder. You can also extract password protected archives before entering a password or selecting a password list to crack the archive [...] (more…)

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Hamster Zip Archiver Is Faster And More Friendly Alternative To 7-Zip

7-zip, despite being the best archiving utility available out there, lacks some UI specific aspects which would have made it a lot better. Since many beginners find it a quite difficult to go around with 7-zip, it would be a good idea to try out an application which covers both facets – fast archive creation [...] (more…)

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J7Z Is 7-Zip With New GUI And Profiles Support

7Zip despite being an excellent tool for archiving data, does not include profiles and lists. By using archiving profiles and lists, you can lessen the overall effort to archive or extract files to a pre-selected directory. J7Z is an alternative open source GUI of 7Zip that enables users to create custom profiles for saving and extracting archives. By default, [...] (more…)

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FileThin NTFS Saves Disk Space On NTFS File System

If you’re running an operating system supporting NTFS, disk space shouldn’t be a problem for you thanks to NTFS file system’s built-in transparent compression functionality. FileThin NTFS is a free tool that utilizes the same function of the native file-system, but also enhances it with additional support and extra features. (more…)

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Repair And Unpack Compressed Archives With AutoUnpack

It happens quite so often that a set of downloaded archive packages carry voids, incomplete binaries and other problems which thwarts user to unpack the archive correctly, if you’ve faced such exceptions in the past while extracting compressed archives, you should consider giving AutoUnpack a shot. It is a Windows application which uses PAR2 mechanism [...] (more…)

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Repair Zip Archives For Free With DiskInternals ZIP Repair

Zip Repair is a recovery program from DiskInternals – famous for writing recovery and repairing software. It is designed to repair CRC32/Archive errors and other known data discrepancies which arises due to some unidentifiable reasons in ZIP files. Many a times it happens that we get a message that states “Cannot open file: it does [...] (more…)

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PowerArchiver 2010 Is Free Compression And Archiving Utility

PowerArchiver is one of the best compression utility out there developed by ConeXware. They’ve recently changed tracks and are offering their eminent product free for personal use, which is a stripped-down version of standard PowerArchiver yet provides many feature and options to make the most of it. For those who don’t know, it supports a [...] (more…)

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Zipeg Is A Handy Archive Extractor [Mac]

Being a Mac buff, you must have enjoyed it’s vigorous functionality of archive decompression, but perhaps also be familiar with two shortcomings. First it does not support all archive formats, second if you want to extract only specified files from the archive, it wouldn’t let you do that. Zipeg has been developed to overcome these problems [...] (more…)

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BitSer File Compression Software Is Alternative To 7Zip

Demands for file-compression utilities are getting higher as time progresses. Today systems are generally overwhelmed with a lot of data that needs to be archived. The file-compression utilities can be useful for compressing or backing-up precious data, which eventually provides extra space. As for now, 7-zip is the most eminent file-compression utility but severely lacks [...] (more…)

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Effectively Handle Large Number Of Archives With ExtractNow

The importance and utility of archives has always been immense, and with the rapid increase in internet dependency, cloud computing and data sharing, archives have become more abundant than ever. In my work, more than half the software that I test come packaged as ZIP files, RAR files or some other archive format. Extracting a [...] (more…)