How to Create a ZIP File

Written by Austin
... on a stunning September day.

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📖 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

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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:
  1. 📄 document1.doc (123KB)
  2. 📄 document2.csv (456KB)
  3. 📄 document3.pdf (789KB)
• We’ll get
  1. 📁 documents.zip (1,234KB)

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!