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Synonyms Zipped file Compressed file Zipped folder Compressed folder Zipped archive Zipped files (known by many names, see the table to the right, but in this document called 'zipped files') are one or more files on a computer disk that have been combined into a single file in a space-efficient manner to reduce their total file size. This is very useful when disk space is limited or when people download files. Since multiple files can be stored in a zipped file, a single file can be downloaded then unzipped to easily download many files at once. You can think of a zipped file as a set of books on a shelf.

When I use a web browser to connect to EFT Server and download a Microsoft Word 2007 document (ending in '.docx') using the HTML Listing and Upload form/Plain-Text Client (*not* the Web Transfer Client), my browser prompts me to open or save the document, but indicates that the file is a ZIP or RAR file, not a Word document. To 'unblock' a file, right-click it in Windows Explorer, choose Properties from the context menu, click the Unblock button in the lower right-hand corner of the resulting dialog, and hit OK or Apply: Important: ZIP files should be 'unblocked' before their contents are extracted.

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Photo Credit: Flickr user. The set of books is arranged so that they take a very small amount of space, but you can't use or read them while arranged in this compressed manner. Unzipping files In order to work with zipped files, they must be unzipped or extracted first. Windows has a built in program called Windows Compressed Folders which can do this for you. If you have installed a zip program, such as WinZip or 7-Zip, Windows Compressed Folders may not be easily available on your computer.