Zip Reader For Mac

ZIP Reader by PKWARE is a free tool that allows recipients to open ZIP files, including passphrase protected and digitally encrypted archives. When a zip file contains multiple items, the unzipped files will be stored in a folder that has the same name as the zip file. For example, if you unzip a file called Archive.zip, the files will be placed in a folder called Archive. This folder will be placed in the same folder as the Archive.zip file.

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The __MACOSX/ subdirectory contains Mac resource forks and is created when you use Mac tools to create the zip file. Likewise, Mac tools will consume the __MACOSX/ subdirectory in order to set resource forks, and you'll never even see it. However, if you use Mac tools to create the zip file and some other tools to unpack it, you'll get the __MACOSX/ directory and not the resource forks.

If you create the file with zip, which is a 3rd-party app, then the __MACOSX/ directory never gets created in the first place. – Jun 22 '16 at 19:05 •. The zip command line utility never creates a __MACOSX directory, so you can just run a command like this: zip directory.zip -x *.DS_Store -r directory In the output below, a.zip which I created with the zip command line utility does not contain a __MACOSX directory, but a 2.zip which I created from Finder does.

$ touch a $ xattr -w somekey somevalue a $ zip a.zip a adding: a (stored 0%) $ unzip -l a.zip Archive: a.zip Length Date Time Name -------- ---- ---- ---- 0 01-02-16 20:29 a -------- ------- 0 1 file $ unzip -l a 2.zip # I created `a 2.zip` from Finder before this Archive: a 2.zip Length Date Time Name -------- ---- ---- ---- 0 01-02-16 20:29 a 0 01-02-16 20:31 __MACOSX/ 149 01-02-16 20:29 __MACOSX/._a -------- ------- 149 3 files -x.DS_Store does not exclude.DS_Store files inside directories but -x *.DS_Store does. The top level file of a zip archive with multiple files should usually be a single directory, because if it is not, some unarchiving utilites (like unzip and 7z, but not Archive Utility, The Unarchiver, unar, or dtrx) do not create a containing directory for the files when the archive is extracted, which often makes the files difficult to find, and if multiple archives like that are extracted at the same time, it can be difficult to tell which files belong to which archive. Archive Utility only creates a __MACOSX directory when you create an archive where at least one file contains metadata such as extended attributes, file flags, or a resource fork.

The __MACOSX directory contains AppleDouble files whose filename starts with._ that are used to store OS X-specific metadata. The zip command line utility discards metadata such as extended attributes, file flags, and resource forks, which also means that metadata such as tags is lost, and that aliases stop working, because the information in an alias file is stored in a resource fork. Normally you can just discard the OS X-specific metadata, but to see what metadata files contain, you can use xattr -l. Xattr also includes resource forks and file flags, because even though they are not actually stored as extended attributes, they can be accessed through the extended attributes interface.