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  • verb Present participle of unarchive.

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Examples

  • To open a compressed file, you double-click its icon, or drag it into your unarchiving software.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • To open a compressed file, you double-click its icon, or drag it into your unarchiving software.

    Uncompress Your Files With the Freeware Unarchiver: Zipeg 2009

  • I tried downloading the Fake Streets Hats. zip file and the unarchiving utility in Mac OSX says it's corrupted.

    The Streets: Day 5 (Music (For Robots)) 2006

  • The Unarchiver uses the libxad unarchiving library to support many older, obscure formats.

    Applelinks.com 2010

  • Note that taking that same. zip file and unarchiving it (that's what previous operating systems called it) in Tiger, all of the files are owned by their original owners.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2008

  • It gets to the end of the unarchiving and just stays at the end.

    music is art 2008

  • Worked fine. running kde4 here. .i created an empty folder, put 3 tar. bz2 archives in it, select them, click "extract archive here" and ark extracted all 3 of them successfully and i have no reason to believe it would not have done that with zip files or with 400 zipped files ... what version of kde are you running? are you sure your system has proper support for unarchiving zipped files?. .i think your reaction is unnecessarily over the top

    PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009

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