Today, I am going to speak to you about file compression. In addition to the classics .Zip and. Rar, there is one of the extensions that makes new users confuse and this is represented by the gzip (tar. Gz). It is used to compress different file types (including databases, web sites in some cases). But, how to decompress a GZIP? We will see all the programs best suited for both operating systems based on Windows, and Mac.
Open a tar.gz file on Windows
The Windows software that we recommend for carrying out these operations is called 7-Zip, and can be downloaded for free from the official page at this link . Once downloaded the file, unzip it and install the software. After this, right click on the file to decompress and select the program you just installed. That's it, the tar.gz file will immediately be unpacked and you can see and explore the information.
Open a tar.gz file on Mac
To do the same thing on Mac-based operating systems, we recommend using Unarchiver which is a free software. This can be downloaded by clicking on this link. The procedure is simple opening in the same way as that of 7-Zip: just open the application and select the file to unpack. That's it.
Be careful because the aforementioned Unarchiver not allow you to do the reverse operation. To do it, we recommend downloading Keka, application that is made with that intention (and freely downloadable), This also allows you to compress your files even in extensions 7Z, ZIP, and BZIP2. Remember that some types of files - as already mentioned, the. Sql database, for example - are very well suited to compression, and are able to reduce by ten times of its size. A file of 70-80MB, for example, can easily become one that does not exceed the 8MB, and so on.
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