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July 12, 2007
Unarchiver | Password protected Zip files
If someone gives you a Zip file, and you click it, OS X's built-in BOMArchiveHelper.app will unzip the file for you when you double-click it.
However, if the Zip file is password protected, you'll just get an error message. That's when you need to use the free "The Unarchiver.app." You can download it from VersionTracker.
Whitewatery people will already have The Unarchiver.app installed on their Macs. To use it to open a password protected file, right-click (or Control-click) on the zip file and select "Open with > The Unarchiver."
Incidentally, if you receive a Zip file via email, you'll want to drag the attachment to your Desktop and then double-click to unzip. If you click the file in Mail.app, it will unzip, it just won't look like it has, as it will unzip the file into the Mail Downloads folder in your Library, which you won't normally access.
Posted by Brad at July 12, 2007 10:33 AM
