Archives have been a way to share compressed data since the early days of Windows. They were the best way to save data, storage space, and bandwidth in the early days, and have now become an integral part of sharing multiple files at once. If you share a lot of data, chances are you’ve come across the most common archive type: ZIP. But what exactly is it? And how do you unzip it to get your original files? Let’s find out!
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Archives are compressed and customized single files that are made from folders, directories, or multiple files. Depending on your files and archive extension, the files can be extremely compressed to save storage space and bandwidth usage.
ZIP (extension .zip) is an archive format that is the most common and widely used due to its support for multiple operating systems, including Windows, macOS, and Unix. It is quite easy to extract .zip files and even create your own archives with .zip extension. Let’s take a quick look at the procedure.
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