

(Windows 10 only)ħ-Zip (and other useful free tools) can be downloaded and installed here under the ‘Compression’ list of tools. There are two ways to create an encrypted Zip or RaR archive folder:ġ.

Instructions on how to send (or receive) file(s)/folder(s) to a third party using OxFile can be found here.

Your resulting Zip or RaR archive folder can then be easily sent to a third party. Zip and RaR are just two technologies that are freely available to do this – other technologies are available that do the same job. $ zip -er sample.zip /Users/Desktop/ testĪdding: Users/Desktop/test/.DS_Store (deflated 96%)Īdding: Users/Desktop/test/test.If you have a collection of files and folders to send to someone, a Zip or RaR archive folder will allow you to combine them all into a single file and protect (encrypt) all the contents with a single password. You won’t be see the actual password for security reason (you can ignore CRC related warning) How to set up password while compressing the ZIPfile $ zip -er įor example, instruction for compressiing test folder in Downloads into sample.zip will be the following. Zipcloak warning: Local Entry CRC does not match CD: _MACOSX/._test.png Zipcloak warning: Local Entry CRC does not match CD: test.png Note: You cna drag & drop if the file path is too long for you to type (see the below image) Drag and drop the file path from finderįor example, here’s test.zip file that I want to set up password (test.zip file has test.png files) and you can set up the password by putting the following instruction. You can set up a password to your ZIP file by putting the following instruction in your terminal. How to set up password on ZIP file ( ZIPCLOACK ) You don’t need to buy special app for zip file. I found which you can set up a password to your zip file via terminal. But I didn’t want to (^^ )download app just for setting up the passowrd. I just changed to Mac from PC and had to lock zip file with password.
