[X4U] How to Un-encrypt WinZip archives?

[Mark Phillips]

On Jun 15, 2006, at 5:16 PM, B r u c e wrote:

> At work I use WinZip on a laptop, and keep my private info  
> encrypted. I would like to send it home to my Mac to work on, but I  
> haven't yet found a way to un-encrypt the data. I KNOW the  
> password, because I set it. I just don't know if there is a program  
> that will do the job. Any ideas?


StuffIt Deluxe handles password protected zip archives correctly.

If you are handy with Terminal, you can use the "unzip" program. If  
an archive is encrypted, unzip will ask for the password during the  
extraction operation. Here is a snipped from the manual:

        To use unzip to extract all members of the archive  
letters.zip into the
        current directory and subdirectories below it, creating any  
subdirecto-
        ries as necessary:

            unzip letters

        To extract all members of letters.zip into the current  
directory only:

            unzip -j letters

For more information, fire up Terminal and type "man unzip".

hth,

Mark Phillips
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