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How to zip a file on a Mac
Hey everyone. In this quick video, I want to show you how you could zip a file on a Mac. So if you want it to take a file and zip it, so you could email her or something like that, I'm going to show you how to do that. Mac actually has that built-in, but you just got to know where to click, to be able to zip a file.
You could do it with a folder. You could do it with a couple of files. Any of those will work. Let me show you how to do that right now. If it's your first time here, I make easy-to-follow tech tutorials five times a week. So please consider subscribing let's jump in and take a look okay. So first let's create a, so I'm going to do a command-click here and do a new folder and let's say these are my pictures that I want to make a folder of. So now that I named my folder, I could always rename it here. I just got to click here and then it becomes editable. So now that I have that, let me open this folder and I want to drag the things that I want to archive. So if I have multiple files, I want to archive, I want to drag them in there.
So let me just grab all these and I'll put them right here. So not that you have those in this folder. All you have to do is you have to come to this folder control, click on the folder and press compress my images desk. The name of the folder, press that, and just like that is created that archive. This is the archive.
Now, let me do a command. I here, just to show you the file here, you could go ahead and rename your zip file. So you could change the name here and you could check the file size. So 184 megabytes when you're emailing things is recommended not to send anything more than 10 megabytes. This is still much bigger than that.
So in order to send this to someone, I recommend using a website. Like we transform. We transfer, you could go ahead and add a file up to two gigabytes completely for free. So if you want to send a zip file to someone that's more than 10 megabytes in it that way, what if you have just a small zip file, you could just email it around 10 megabytes is the recommended size for email.
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