Is there an easy way to open .zip files?

  • Thread starter Roger Schlemmer
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Roger Schlemmer

OS X 10.3.3
Entourage X

I have one correspondent who likes to use .zip files for his attachments.

Is there an easy method for opening these attachments?

I have been dropping them on DropZip, that produces a .zip.zip file and then
double click on the original, waiting, and it eventually turns into a .jpg
file.

This seems long and tedious to me, maybe I expect too much.
 
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Adam Bailey

Roger Schlemmer said:
I have one correspondent who likes to use .zip files for his attachments.

Is there an easy method for opening these attachments?

I have been dropping them on DropZip, that produces a .zip.zip file and then
double click on the original, waiting, and it eventually turns into a .jpg
file.

This seems long and tedious to me, maybe I expect too much.
Click to expand...

DropZip is designed to *create* Zip attachments.

Use StuffIt Expander to extract them.
 
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Roger Schlemmer

Thanks for the heads up.
Is there any way to have StuffIt Expander open .zip files automatically when
clicked on?
 
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Barry Wainwright

In OS X:

Save the attachment to the desktop. Control-Click on it and select ³Show
Info² from the contextual menu. In the window that appears, click on
"General Information" and choose "Open with application" from the pop-up
list. Click on the down arrow in the icon box and select the application you
want (stuffit expander) from the list that appears or select the "Other..."
command. Click the
³Change All² button which is now active.

In OS 9:

Apple Menu Control Panels Internet / Advanced tab File Mapping. Scroll
down the list of file extensions to find the one you¹re looking for. Select
it and click Change. When the Change Mapping window appears, scroll to the
application you want (stuffit expander), select it and click Change. Close
out of the Internet
Control Panel and click Save if prompted.
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]

Adam Bailey said:
Use StuffIt Expander to extract them.
Click to expand...

You don;t even need it under MacOS X 10.3. THe System itself can take
care of de-compacting the files.

Corentin
 
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