Compression, for the most part, is good for your system as it compresses big files into a small packet that ends up consuming less space on Hard Drive. However, you may want to decompress some files ...

I am sure that you have heard about ZIP files. It is a compressed file format that can be used to compress & pack one or more files or folders together, to save disk space, as its size is smaller. It ...

Are you fed up with the stock macOS Archive Utility when it comes to compressing or uncompressing files? The stock app is far from the best, so here are five third-party utilities that you should try ...

Web site Krunch is an online file compression tool that lets you "Krunch" (i.e. compress/uncompress) files over the internet. With Krunch, you can upload and compress your files, upload and uncompress ...

In my adaptation of the Java code into the Groovy script shown above, I left most of the exception handling in place. Although Groovy allows exceptions to be ignored whether they are checked or ...

There are quite a few interesting things that you can do with "zip" commands other than compress and uncompress files. Here are some other zip options and how they can help. Some of us have been ...

The compression done at the OS level is hidden to the program, so the only choke point would be a CPU bottleneck. What actually looks wrong is a corrupt file system - a CHKDSK is in order.