Apple Archive Utility

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The Apple Archive Utility comes preinstalled in macOS and is the default application to open archives and compressed files. It supports a variety of compression algorithms and can expand and compress them to and from those formats.

Moreover, users can also control where a compressed file is saved and where the extracted content is stored through the Archive Utility application.

Below is a list of extensions supported by Apple Archive Utility

Extension

Name

tgz

TGZ

Gzipped Tar

tar gz

TAR.GZ

Compressed Tarball

tar

TAR

Consolidated Unix File

7z

7Z

7-Zip Compressed

Extenstion

Name

zip

ZIP

Zipped

Extenstion

Name

tgz

TGZ

Gzipped Tar

Extenstion

Name

tar gz

TAR.GZ

Compressed Tarball

Extenstion

Name

tar

TAR

Consolidated Unix File

Extenstion

Name

7z

7Z

7-Zip Compressed