

You can also unzip the files, right-click (or Control + click) on the. Mac OS’s built-in Archive Utility opens the zip archive and unpacks the files, usually in a folder with the same name as the zip archive minus the. In the example above, a zip file named Archive.zip was extracted to create a folder called Archive that contains the contents of the original zip file.

You don’t open it as much as you unzip it to reveal the contents of the zip archive. zip extension) is simply a container with another file or files.

No wonder it turns out that opening and extracting files on a Mac is very easy thanks to the built-in Archive Utility. If you get a zip file, you may be wondering how you can open the archive to see what it is and extract the internal components of the zip archive.
