📖 In This Article
›What’s a ZIP file?
›You shall not Pass(word)… please…
›Creating a ZIP File on Windows
›Creating a ZIP File on Mac OSX
If you are migrating your data to Nookal, along with a collection of data files you may need to combine the multiple files into a single ZIP file for easier transfer.
🗄️ What’s a ZIP file?
A ZIP file is a collection of computer files and folders that has been compressed (a.k.a “zipped”) so they use less space on your hard drive – and are faster to transfer.
The compressed files are stored within a single ‘archive‘ file that commonly has a ‘zip‘ filename extension – however, different compression types use different extensions.
When we compress multiple files or folders into a ZIP file, it is combined into a single file – for example:
- If we compress:
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document1.doc (123KB)
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document2.csv (456KB)
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document3.pdf (789KB)
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- We’ll get
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documents.zip (1,234KB)
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You can then transfer that single ZIP file to us, and we can decompress or “unzip” it back into the multiple files to be processed.
🧙 You shall not Pass(word)… please…
Please ensure you don’t set a password on any files you transfer to us. Thank you. 🙏
🪟 Creating a ZIP File on Windows
Locate the files and/or folders to be zipped.
Hold the CTRL Key and click on each file to make a selection of all the files/folders.
Right-click on any of the selected files/folders and select the Send to > Compressed (zipped) folder option.
When processing has finished, you’ll find the ZIP file next to the original documents – ready to transfer!
🍏 Creating a ZIP File on Mac OSX
Locate the files and/or folders to be zipped.
Hold the CMD Key and click on each file to make a selection of all the files/folders.
Right-click (or hold the CTRL Key and click) on any of the selected files/folders and select the “Compress” option.
When processing has finished, you’ll find the ZIP file next to the original documents – ready to transfer!