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Barbara Krasnoff
Once upon a time, you needed a third-party app in order to zip or unzip files.

But no more. Now, all the more popular operating systems — macOS, iOS, Windows, Android, and ChromeOS — include that ability as part of their toolkits. Here’s now you can zip and unzip files in order to save space, no matter which OS you use.

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