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A quick how to about making zip files less of a pain.
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hey everyone this is Michael with CAC
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here and today I'm going to show you how
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you can make working with zipped files
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and folders in OS 10 a little less
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painful so one of the things that
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bothers me the most about OS 10 is that
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working with zipped archives is just a
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mess for example when you unzip a file
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or folder you not only get the unzipped
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file but you also keep the zipped file
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and I don't like that I want to get rid
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of it I've unzip and I'm done with it
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and also you can't by default specify
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where you want files to uh unzip to and
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they always go into the folder which the
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zipped folder is into and that's not my
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favorite either so I'm going to show you
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here how you can actually fix this and
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change these preferences so if you open
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up a new finder window and you go into
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the system folder in Macintosh HD and
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then library and then core Services what
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you'll find is a lot of different system
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level applications that you normally
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can't find and in here is archive
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utility Now by default when you
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unarchive a folder archive utility quits
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automatically uh but if you open it up
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from core Services it stays open and
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then you can go up to the archive
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utility menu and select preferences now
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in here is where you find all those
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elusive options for example let's say I
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want to save my expanded files always to
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my desktop I can choose that from here
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maybe I want to after expanding move the
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archive to trash now I can do that maybe
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I hate revealing expanded items into
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finder
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that way it always pops up a new finder
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window when you whenever you unarchive
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something I don't like that and let's
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say that when I want to Archive stuff I
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want to use the zip archive format these
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are all options I can change Right From
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Within These preferences and it's really
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nice and this solves a lot of my
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problems with archive utility and
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hopefully it'll solve yours too now if
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you want to get a little bit more in
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depth if you right click on archive
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utility and hit show package contents in
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the contents folder and then in the
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resources folder you'll find archives.
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pref pan and if you open it up in my
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case it gives me an error because I
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already have it installed but what it'll
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let you do is install a system
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preferences pane under the other
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category that lets you manage these same
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preferences right within system
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preferences so if you don't want to
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bother going to core Services every time
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you want to change something you can do
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it right from here and last but not
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least if you don't like using archive
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utility at all and you want something
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different you can right click on any
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compressed folder go open with and then
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app store and what it'll do is it'll
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launch up the app store and it'll show
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you every app on the App Store that can
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perform the same function as archive
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utility personally I've used the unar
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before and it works pretty well so I can
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recommend that but if you're looking for
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a little B more functionality uh this is
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a nice place to look on the App Store so
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there you go there's how to make working
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with zipped files in OS 10 a little bit
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less painful hopefully this helped you
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out as always if there's anything that
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you'd like to see me do a howto on make
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sure to send me an email this is Michael
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with culon Mac I hope you found this
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video useful and thank you for watching
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