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Learn how to interact with Zip files on your computer.
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As a part of your learning
journey here at Treehouse,
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you'll probably come across zip files.
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Zip files are compressed files making
them easier to share and store.
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We use them to share course files,
project files and more.
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Here I am in the Downloads tab for
a video on a course here on Treehouse.
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When I click the Project Files button
it'll download the project files and
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you can see it's a zip file. Now
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if I navigate to my Downloads,
you can see I have this basic-oop here.
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But because it's a zip file,
I can't access the files
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inside of it until I open or
unzip this file.
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I can access the files by double
clicking on it, choosing File Explorer.
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And then I can choose Extract All.
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Now, it's going to ask me where I
want to put the extracted files.
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Since I'm probably going to
want to keep them and use them,
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I will want to put them inside
of my Documents folder.
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So you can see, I click Documents and now
it says Documents down here in the bottom
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and I'm gonna choose Select Folder, and it
changes the file path here to Documents.
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I'm gonna click Extract.
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And then I can close out of that one and
click on Documents.
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And you can now see I have
the basic-oop folder here and
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when I double click into it,
now I can actually see
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the folders and
files inside of this folder.
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Sometimes it's easier to move the zip file
where you want these files to end up first
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before unzipping them, or you can move
them throughout the process like we did.
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In the teacher's notes below
this video, I also linked to
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our How to Use Treehouse Workshop.
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It goes into more detail about what is
available to you here on our website.
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I hope you enjoy your learning
experience here at Treehouse.
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