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File compression is often used to cut down a file size, and on your Mac compressing a file takes only a few clicks. With this easy tutorial, you will be able to have a freshly brewed .zip file that can be used on PC's as well!

Note: This is something which people commonly come across and this is when you use the compression tool, the file hardly compresses at all, if anything around 1mb or even 0.1mb. The thing with .zip files is that it is best compressed when dealing with mid-sized files. Large files or even very small files for that matter will see very little difference in compressed size. It is also important to keep in mind that files containing images such as .jpeg will also result in hardly any compression because the .jpeg file format already is compressed as it is.

So enough of the rambling, lets show you how easy compressing a file on Mac OS X works!

For this tutorial I am using Mac OS X Mountain Lion. 

So here I have a test folder on my desktop! Very simply all you must do is right click and you will be presented with a little menu. All you have to do is hit "Compress (Folder name)" and that should present you with a simple .zip file.