Thanks to ever-growing hard-drive capacities and ever-faster network connections, compressing files isn’t quite the vital and frequent task it used to be. Still, it’s useful in certain situations; for ...

Successful businesses rely on communication, and modern communication often relies on the transfer of digital data. When a file is too large, however, it often becomes difficult to send via email or ...

How to use the zip and bzip2 macOS file compression commands Your email has been sent A variety of Mac applications compress files, but two simple commands native to macOS fulfill the same ...

Panic mode activated – you’re sending an important folder of pictures via email but the files are too large to send. Or maybe it’s your computer storage that’s the issue, but you just can’t seem to ...

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I remember back in the olden, pre-OS X days, when you’d need to use a utility like Stuffit to compress a bunch of files together into one archive, shedding excess data and making it easier to get ...

Use Preview: Open the PDF in Preview, click File > Export, select “Reduce File Size” under Quartz Filter, and save. Use ColorSync Utility: Open the PDF in ColorSync Utility, click File > Export, ...