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Recommended ZIP software

Logikcull's recommended zip utilities for Windows and Mac operating systems

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Written by John OHara
Updated over a week ago

If you're required to ZIP a large file upload, a Production Upload, or re-combine a spanned ZIP into a single volume, Logikcull recommends one of the following utilities.

Windows Applications

APPLICATION

COST

PROS/CONS

RANKING

Free to trial

Supports multi-part archives

1

Free

Supports multi-part archives

2

Built-in Windows compression tool

Free/Native on Windows OS

Does not support multi-part archives

3

Mac Applications

APPLICATION

COST

PROS/CONS

RANKING

Free to trial

Supports multi-part archives

1

Free

Does not support multi-part archives

2

Build in Mac compression tool

Free/Native on Mac OS

ZIPs created from Mac's build in compression option may be incompatible with Logikcull due to the way Mac OS treats ZIP encoding.

3

Free

Supports multi-part archives

4

Multi-part archives / spanned ZIPs

Multi-part archives create multiple smaller sub-containers from one source (.z01, .z02, .z03). Spanned zip files (.z01, .z02, .z03) must be recombined into a single volume prior to uploading into Logikcull.

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